Living with growing muscle weakness, movement challenges and seizures

The swelling in her legs persisted for over a week, so Abigail Chua, then 13, went to the doctor and was put through a ...
Newsweek

I Was Determined to Cure My Daughter. But I Learned a Powerful Lesson

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. My daughter had MERRF Syndrome. Chances are, you've never heard of MERRF Syndrome. I hadn't either before Dalia was ...
Yahoo

My Daughter's Rare Disease Was A Mystery For Years. Here's How We Finally Got A Diagnosis.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re not a rare disease specialist, or among the 2 in 1,000,000 people afflicted with MERRF syndrome, I’m guessing you’ve ...
Huffington Post UK

I Lost My Daughter To A Rare Disease, But It's What I Did After That Surprises People The Most

When my husband and I adopted our daughter Dalia from Guatemala, nearly 18 years ago when she was six months old, there was so much I didn’t know. I didn’t know how to get her to sleep when I was ...
Nature

Mutational analysis of whole mitochondrial DNA in patients with MELAS and MERRF diseases

Mitochondrial diseases are clinically and genetically a very heterogeneous disorder group. Some mitochondrial disorders only affect a single organ, such as the eye in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy ...
scmp.com

Mexican teen creates app ‘Hands with Voice’ to help deaf sister with MERRF syndrome communicate

Estrella Salazar, a 17-year-old science whizz from a working-class town near Mexico City, was inspired by her sister to develop an app to help deaf and hard-of-hearing Mexicans communicate more easily ...
The Straits Times

Living with growing muscle weakness, movement challenges and seizures

SINGAPORE – The swelling in her legs persisted for over a week, so Abigail Chua, then 13, went to the doctor and was put through a battery of tests to get to its root cause. After two weeks of scans ...