For more information visit www.deafchildrenaustralia.org.au There are 16,090 deaf and hearing impaired children under 21 in Australia. Approximately 11, 479 children in Australia from 0 to 18 years have been fitted with hearing aids by...

It is named after the physician Nicholaus Friedreich, who first described the condition in the 1860s. “Ataxia,” which refers to coordination problems such as clumsy or awkward movements and unsteadiness, occurs in many different diseases...

Symptoms vary with the different types of muscular dystrophy. Some types, such as Duchene Muscular Dystrophy, are deadly, while other types cause little disability and are associated with normal life span. Some forms of MD...