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FIRST Funds Cutting Edge Ichthyosis Research: An Explanation for the Rest of Us
We were thrilled to see today’s announcement by FIRST, the Foundation for Ichthyosis and Related Skin Types, that FIRST has made a major research grant to Dr. Amy Paller at Northwestern University in...
View ArticleThis Week in Ichthyosis – 10/4/2012
Earlier this week, FIRST, the Foundation for Ichthyosis and Related Skin Types, announced that it had made a $75,000 grant funding research into a potential ichthyosis treatment using a gold...
View ArticleIchthyosis Research: Grafting ichthyosis on a mouse
Going through our postal mail this week, we saw a copy of the September 2012 “Research Times” newsletter from FIRST, the Foundation for Ichthyosis and Related Skin Types. In addition to reporting on...
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Dozens of cases of ichthyosis in a tiny Mexican town: The Founder Effect in...
Last week, we learned about several news articles about icthyosis in a tiny, rural mountain village in Mexico, Soledad Atzompa. There are an astounding number of affected people in a very small region....
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Ictiosis afecta muchas personas en un pueblo pequeño en Veracruz: El efecto...
La última semana, nos enteramos de algunas noticias acerca de ictiosis en un pueblo rural y montaña en México, Soledad Atzompa. Hay allí un increíble número de personas que se ven afectadas por...
View ArticleMalawi Baby with Harlequin Ichthyosis has Died
Malawi media is now reporting that the baby born last week affected with harlequin ichthyosis has died. (We wrote on Monday about the baby and the media coverage.) Although the news of the baby’s...
View ArticleGolden Corral Lawsuit in Michigan Settles
Good news out of Michigan — there has been a settlement in the Justice Department’s lawsuit against a Golden Corral restaurant in Michigan that kicked out a family with three daughters who had a form...
View ArticleUpdate on the Mexican village plagued by the founder effect
Last October, we wrote about media coverage of Soledad Atzompa, a tiny village in Mexico with an astounding number of cases of lamellar ichthyosis, a form of autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis...
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