John Hopkins University has named a new genetic disease after a Saudi woman doctor for contributing to research around the illness. Wafa bint Mohammad Al-Eyaid, a consultant in endocrine diseases and genetics at the King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of the National Guard in Riyadh, followed 12 cases involving six Saudi families between 2002 and 2010.
She found that the children were born underweight despite seemingly normal periods of pregnancy, and had significant softness of the skin around their necks and elsewhere. All of them had heart defects, with some having undergone surgery.
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Genetic disease named after Saudi doctor | Arab News
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