Like many rare disorders, periodic paralysis can go undiagnosed and be easily misinterpreted as a wide variety of neurologic or other disorders. But with increased awareness of the unique symptoms of ...
Global initiative highlights decades-long diagnostic delays and calls for U.S. policy action to improve care, access, and support for rare disease community CHICAGO, March 19, 2026--(BUSINESS ...
VANCOUVER -- Trial results for dichlorphenamide, recently approved for treatment of periodic paralysis with the brand name Keveyis, were featured prominently here at a plenary session of the American ...
More than 15 years of research led by neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has culminated in the first approved treatment for individuals with a rare neuromuscular ...
Scientists have identified a gene underlying a disease that causes temporary paralysis of skeletal muscle. The finding, they say, illustrates how investigations of rare genetic diseases can drive ...
A rare genetic disorder in which people are suddenly overcome with profound muscle weakness is caused by a hole in a membrane protein that allows sodium ions to leak across cell membranes, researchers ...
In the past 15 years, Ryan Csupak has been in an emergency room 30 to 40 times, unable to move his legs and arms. He’s experienced shortness of breath, extreme fatigue and weakness. This is the ...
VANCOUVER — For patients with hypokalemic periodic paralysis (PP), dichlorphenamide (Keveyis, Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd) significantly reduces the rate and severity of muscle weakness attacks ...
A rare genetic disorder in which people are suddenly overcome with profound muscle weakness is caused by a hole in a membrane protein that allows sodium ions to leak across cell membranes, researchers ...
Scientists have identified a gene underlying a disease that causes temporary paralysis of skeletal muscle. The finding, they say, illustrates how investigations of rare genetic diseases can drive ...
A rare genetic disorder in which people are suddenly overcome with profound weakness or temporary paralysis is caused by a hole in a membrane protein that allows sodium ions to leak across cell ...