She can be reached by email. Updated | A 7-year-old boy with a rare and fatal skin condition that causes gruesome blisters has been given a treatment that is nothing short of a medical breakthrough.

LONDON — Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in a desperate attempt to save ...

The parents of a 12-year-old Colorado boy with stiff skin syndrome, a rare condition causing him to “become entombed within himself,” are fighting to find a cure. Jaiden Rogers, of Alamosa ...

UK boy Rhys Williams -- whose skin is so fragile the slightest cut could prove fatal -- is about to turn 16, shattering doctors' predictions that he wouldn't live a decade. Tanya Williams / SWNS A ...

In a significant advance in organ regeneration and gene therapy, researchers created a new, healthy skin that covers almost the entire body of a 7-year-old boy with a life-threatening genetic ...

The research, published in the journal Nature, involved a 7-year-old boy who suffers from a genetic disease known as junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) that makes skin so fragile that minor ...

LAS VEGAS (KVVU/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A boy with a rare skin condition can't close his eyes. Carter is a seven-year-old boy who was born with two rare skin conditions: Lamellar ichthyosis and ...

In a last-ditch effort to save a dying 7-year-old boy, scientists have used stem cells and gene therapy to replace about 80 percent of his skin. This procedure’s success demonstrates that the ...

A seven year old boy with a rare genetic disease called junctional epidermolysis bullosa received the most extensive skin transplant yet to treat his condition. The boy was born with a mutation in ...

Carter Blanchard, 8, and Rowdy the dog have a disorder called vitiligo. — -- An 8-year-old boy with a skin disorder that causes white patches on his skin was able to fly across the country to ...

LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - We can sometimes take the little things for granted in life but for a little boy in Las Vegas ... dealing with a couple of rare skin conditions that he was born ...