People with Prader-Willi syndrome can live into their 60s or beyond when they receive an early diagnosis and maintain effective weight management throughout their lives. Respiratory failure represents ...

Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disorder that causes constant feelings of hunger, as well as poor muscle tone and low levels of sex hormones. People with PWS are at risk of overeating ...

Researchers from the School of Medicine at Trinity have evaluated the impact of the rare genetic disorder, Prader-Willi syndrome on the quality of life of the affected child, and their family. In the ...

Signaling pathways in the cerebellum, rather than the hypothalamus, could provide a key for developing new therapies for the genetic disorder. Disordered signaling in the cerebellum may help explain ...

Prader-Willi syndrome is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder arising from the loss of paternally expressed genes on chromosome 15q11-q13. Clinically, infants present with profound hypotonia, feeding ...

Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) have never before been implicated in alternative splicing. Stefan Stamm and Shivendra Kishore, of the Friedrich-Alexander University Institute for Biochemistry, suggest ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has approved VYKAT™ XR, a significant milestone as the first approved treatment for hyperphagia in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). This ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A male patient presented to an outpatient clinic with abdominal swelling after a motor vehicle accident. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Diazoxide choline extended-release is the first FDA-approved therapy to address hyperphagia in Prader-Willi ...

A special diet and growth hormones may offer hope for children with Prader-Willi syndrome. By Jane E. Brody When a child is born with a rare disorder that few doctors recognize or know how to manage, ...