Canavan disease is a rare childhood condition. It is a type of condition called leukodystrophy, which affects a person’s white matter in the brain and spinal cord. These are nerve fibers that ...

For example, one type of leukodystrophy, Canavan disease, causes decreased muscle ... and speech therapy. Some people may need additional help with learning or nutrition. In some cases, a bone ...

As a child, she was diagnosed with Canavan Disease, a rare genetic disorder that causes the ... For Leone, the loss also represents a loss of potential knowledge that could have helped people ...

WE WERE QUITE LITERALLY THE FIRST PEOPLE TO BE TOLD, LIKE, HERE’S SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN SOME HELP, SOME SOME HOPE. DOCTORS AT UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL BEGAN WORKING ON CANAVAN DISEASE IN 1989.

Twenty years ago, Ilyce Randell and her husband received devastating news: their son Maxie, who was a little over four months old at the time, had Canavan disease. Maxie would ... the couple contacted ...

People with the disease cannot move or communicate and many die in early childhood. But it is also so rare that, at the time, the pediatrician’s young patient was the only known case of Canavan ...

SETU has secured major international funding for rare disease gene therapy research. A research team from the university ...

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As a child, she was diagnosed with Canavan Disease, a rare genetic disorder ... a loss of potential knowledge that could have helped people suffering from gene conditions. "This would have just ...