The International Pompe Day 🌏 is celebrated every year on 15 April to raise awareness of the Pompe disease.
For five weeks starting on 1 April, we will be sharing stories about the disease and the struggles of those living with it.
This year, let’s show some love for people with Pompe disease ❤️ and give them some strength! 💪🏻
With the advancement of testing technology, not only can we assess the risk of specific rare diseases in babies through prenatal carrier screening, we ...
(Original Article)Professor Ho Yin Edwin Chan from the School of Life Sciences of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in co ...
The Orange Cat (2019) By Lucia Chan (aged 12) I was inspired by an image on Google of a picture featuring a crowd of grey people but with one oran ...
With his mother bedridden by Huntington’s Disease, Ken has been her primary caregiver for 16 years. Adding to this challenge is a 50% chance of Ken carrying the same genetic disease himself. Both of Ken’s sisters have gone through tests and confirmed that they do not have the disease. But why would Ken rather not know?
Lifewire Run 2019 invited three young patients to put dream stories to videos. From developing the concepts, story boards to filming and production, these little directors went all in. Their videos even starred artiste Leanne Li, the ambassador of Lifewire Run 2019.
Mucopolysaccharidosis (2013) By Ashley Wong As a genetic counselor, I help patients find out if there is a genetic difference that explains their ...
Having Mucopolysaccharidoses give me a lot of inconveniences physically, and sometimes I’m upset with a lot of hurdles in life, but I have also been g ...
