Gene Panels: The Future for Diagnosing Rare Disease

  Eric Wallace, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Medical Director of Telehealth, Director of the UAB Home Dialysis Program, and co-director of the UAB Fabry Disease Clinic, discusses the advantages of gene panels to diagnose rare genetic conditions,...

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Does Not Equal Anti-Vax

  Jagdish Khubchandani, PhD, Professor of Public Health at New Mexico State University, discusses why individuals might be hesitant about COVID-19 vaccines.  As Dr. Khubchandani explains, the COVID-19 vaccines were developed very quickly relative to most other...

An Overview of Narcolepsy

  Maurice Ohayon, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from Stanford University, provides a brief overview of narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a rare disorder characterized by excessive sleepiness during the day, often with periods of brief...

Mucopolysaccharidosis Conditions Explained

  Barbara Burton, MD, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, provides an overview of the various mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) conditions.  The MPSs are a group of lysosomal storage disorders that include MPS I (e.g., Hurler syndrome), MPS II...