After an attack, the symptoms tend to improve slowly over a few days or weeks. The most common type of acute porphyria is ...

A 32-year-old woman, mother of two, is affected by acute intermittent porphyria, commonly known ... causing abdominal pain and neurological symptoms. Symptoms may include vomiting, abdominal ...

These symptoms often mimic those of other more ... Among the main acute porphyrias are acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), hereditary coproporphyria (HCP), variegate porphyria (VP), and delta ...

Count Dracula might have been an invention of the author Bram Stoker, but there is a real-life disease called acute intermittent porphyria that somewhat mimics the symptoms of horror’s scariest ...

The condition, acute intermittent porphyria, also causes paralysis and is fatal in some cases. The novel approach fine-tunes the genetic instructions locked in our DNA. Doctors say they are ...

The drug treats acute intermittent porphyria, which runs in families and can leave people unable to work or have a normal life. Clinical trials have shown severe symptoms were cut by 74% with the ...