Bohring-Opitz Syndrome (BOS) is a rare genetic disorder with an autosomal pattern of inheritance. It is a severe condition with characteristic physical and intellectual disabilities. It presents with ...

Who: For the short time that 4-month-old Amari Walker was in his family’s lives, he made a big impact. Born to parents Leigh-Anna Cortazar and Shamar Walker of Archbald, with two sisters, Ciyanna ...

Opitz C syndrome is a genetic disease that causes severe disabilities in patients and has been diagnosed in three people in the Iberian Peninsula, and sixty people in the world. A team led by the ...

The shooting happened around 3 a.m. on 9th Street near Walnut Street in downtown Cincinnati. Cincinnati team qualifies for American Double Dutch League World Championship A Cincinnati jump roping team ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – A local family is channeling their grief into a mission to support research for rare diseases. Friday marks "Rare Disease Day," and the Schmidt family is honoring their late son, ...

(SALT LAKE CITY) -- As a teenager just moved to Iowa from war-ravaged Germany in 1950, John M. Opitz, M.D., wanted to study developmental biology, but his "very Prussian" mother insisted he go to ...