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Tay-Sachs was named after Wamen Tay and Bernard Sachs Correction: Tay-Sachs was named after Warren Tay and Bernard Sachs

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Gaucher's disease was named by Philippe Gaucher, a French doctor who was the first to recognize the disease in 1882.

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Gaucher's is named after Phillippe C. E. Gaucher (1854–1918), French physician. He originally described it in 1882 and the disease was then given his name. The drug of choice is Cerezyme.

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