Mischa Keeling has since childhood dealt with an inherited blood disorder some call the vampire disease or King George’s madness. The Spokane Valley resident finally received a diagnosis about five ...

The National Lighting Bureau (NLB), Brentwood, Tenn., recently announced it has collected 1,200 incandescent lightbulbs for the American Porphyria Foundation (APF). With an initial goal of 500 bulbs, ...

For more information on porphyria, contact the American Porphyria Foundation at www.porphyria foundation.com or at 1-866-APF-3635. Imagine having a rare and sometimes fatal disease that causes ...

Buhler resident Shirley Schrag said it was hard for physicians to diagnose the cause of her pain because the disease is rare. Acute intermittent porphyria is inherited, and those who have the painful ...

Centuries ago, physicians began documenting people coming down with a mystery illness that tainted their urine with a reddish hue, cursed them with extreme sensitivity to the sun and transformed their ...

Diagnosing acute hepatic porphyria (AIP) involves measuring porphobilinogen (PBG) levels in urine during symptomatic episodes, combined with genetic testing to identify HMBS gene alterations that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinicians are hoping an RNA interference therapeutic targeting aminolevulinic acid synthase 1, known as ...

I was a 19-year-old nurse’s aide when I saw my first case of porphyia. I was assigned to room 804, where the high school’s valedictorian was writhing in pain. His windowsill was crowded with flower ...

Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) is a group of disorders which are characterized by a deficiency in enzymatic action of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (UROD). This enzyme is the fifth in the heme ...