When Rich Castro was an elementary-age school kid growing up the son of immigrant farm workers in California, he was not tall enough to play basketball, was too small for football and never tried baseball, because he spent his summers working the prune and walnut orchards alongside his parents, earning 25 cents for each filled […]
Hyperemesis gravidarum, a rare pregnancy complication, involves devastating nausea and vomiting but is under-researched and often dismissed. For researcher Marlena Fejzo, also a patient, finding the cause became her life's work.
After enduring severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, the geneticist Marlena Fejzo made finding the cause of her condition, hyperemesis gravidarum, her life’s work.