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Progeria – the pediatric geriatric!

Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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The movie ‘Paa’ has suddenly raised a number of brows, evoking great interest and curiosity about a disease that was probably almost unheard of amongst the hoi polloi. Progeria, a disease in which a child ages prematurely, is a genetic disease that is so rare that it affects one out of every eight million newborns [...]

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