Articles tagged with 'Genetic' | Checkup Newsroom

By Jean YaegerHer whole life, 19-year-old Ashlynn Malone has struggled with fatigue, outbreaks of severe pain, and hospitalizations due to sickle cell disease (SCD). That’s why Ashlynn jumped at the chance to join a clinical trial designed to …

Most of us know someone who has had cancer. That’s because we are all at risk for developing the disease. Usually it’s by chance. But in some cases, cancer develops because of our genetics and that means some of us are predisposed …

Jana Dodd writes a blog for us about her daughter's time at Cook Children's and her struggle with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.

A new survey shows a significant increase in the number of children, ages 3 to 17, diagnosed with autism in the United States. But the research may simply be a matter of parents being more mindful of autism than they were …