Imagine a scenario where your child looks years older than you. There are many strange ... complications that comes with old age like heart diseases, low immunity, diabetes, hypertension to ...

There's an emerging tick-borne disease spreading across the US ... Those who do develop symptoms experience things like fever, confusion, weakness, vomiting, headache, and seizures within one ...

By Gina Kolata A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on the horizon. The disease speeds up aging in children and dramatically ... or cures and, like progeria, have aroused little ...

Hayley Okines is 12, but you couldn’t tell by looking at her. Okines, of East Sussex, Britain has a rare disease called progeria, which causes her to age eight times faster than normal.