A 10-year-old Parker girl’s disease is one in a million, and advancements in her lifetime made all the difference

Before there was a drug to treat it, a diagnosis of aHUS meant the patient had a 60% chance of death or permanent kidney dialysis within the year, said Bradley Dixon, head of the nephrology department at Children’s Hospital Colorado and a professor [and head, Section of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics] at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.