Those close to Jonathan Gant say he’s a man with a big heart—and now it needs mending. On Dec. 24, his life changed ...

When Geoff Lester suddenly felt dizzy while refereeing a basketball game in Brisbane, the then 24-year-old didn’t make much of it. When the spell hadn’t passed an hour later, a friend insisted he go ...

Fibrillin-1 mutations have also been found in patients who do not fulfil clinical criteria for the diagnosis of Marfan syndrome, but have related disorders of connective tissue, such as isolated ...

Subgroup analysis based on age group and echo diagnostic criteria were conducted. "Leave-one-out" sensitivity analysis was also performed to assess the robustness of the findings. Syndromes assessed ...

they also have Marfan syndrome. You may see a small dent in your child’s chest when they are of grade school age. Often it gets worse at about the time a child starts puberty (age 12 to 14 years).

Possible explanations for why your ribs hurt can include injuries, inflammation or infection, and referred pain from other organs that you feel in the rib cage area, like the kidneys. Rib pain is ...

This condition is usually diagnosed in early childhood ... Birth defects and other genetic conditions, such as Marfan syndrome and Down syndrome, can also lead to scoliosis. Many people who have ...

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a heritable multisystemic disorder with a spectrum of clinical manifestations primarily linked to variants in the Fibrillin-1 ...

More than one million people are receiving between £28.70 and £184.30 each week through PIP or Adult Disability Payment for ...

It is estimated that about a third of the population live with some form of muscle or joint problem and those most severely ...

Stuart Kingston, 67, was struggling to swallow and hadn’t been eating but didn’t think anything of the strange symptoms, as he didn’t want to inconvenience his wife Carol. She then realized ...