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Do You Have an Autistic Child?

We need your help. Share your experience with other parents to warn of the dangers of treating autism with quackery and harmful chemicals and products.

Sickle Cell Disease in women

Sickle cell disease is a group of red blood cell disorders that are passed down from your parents. This means that sickle cell a genetic disease, and

Lupus and its effects on women

Lupus is a chronic (lifelong) autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body. With autoimmune diseases, the body’s immune (defense) system cannot tell the difference between viruses, bacteria, and other germs

FBN1 gene, fibrillin 1

The FBN1 gene provides instructions for making a large protein called fibrillin-1. This protein is transported out of cells into the extracellular matrix, which is an intricate lattice of proteins and other molecules that forms in the spaces between cells.