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Stone Man Syndrome Is A Rare Disease That Turns Muscles Into Bones
For patients with a rare genetic disorder that turns their muscles into bone, there is new hope. The disease is […] ...
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Rare Bone Disease Traced To Faulty FOP Gene
and plates of bones are imprisoned in the second skeleton, for the entire life. The disease that occurs in early childhood has no proper available treatment. The identification of this mutant FOP ...
Their flesh turns to bone, but a new treatment might help them
That is the predicament of patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) or “Stone Man Syndrome”, a rare ...
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Landmark study completed for ultra-rare bone-forming disease
Although there are descriptions of FOP dating back to 1740, for centuries the disease remained an enigmatic medical curiosity. FOP’s origins were eventually revealed in 2006. A team of ...
‘I’m like a mannequin,’ says this rare disease patient
Also known colloquially as “Stone Man Syndrome”, FOP is a rare genetic disorder where, after birth and progressively through ...
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Ipsen drug is first therapy for rare bone disease FOP in US
There are an estimated 400 people in the US living with FOP, a life-shortening ... of these extra-skeletal bone deposits, striking at the mechanism underlying the disease. The French drugmaker's ...
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Ipsen's rare disease drug palovarotene knocked back in EU
Ipsen has suffered a setback in its marathon effort to bring palovarotene to market for ultra rare disease ... of extra-skeletal bone deposits, striking at the mechanism underlying FOP, which ...