Martin Mwita, 20, is the first patient in St. Louis and among the first across the country to receive a new gene therapy for ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. It starts with the ticks. These bugs infect people with the bacteria that cause ...

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from ...

Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...

Joy Milne first smelled the disease on her late husband, Les, 17 years before he was diagnosed with it Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration. By Gina Kolata Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new blood test for Alzheimer's disease accurately diagnoses the condition and assesses its progression by measuring MTBR-tau243 protein levels. This test ...

Were you Seen at the 2025 Corks & Forks event benefiting the Huntington's Disease Society of America on March 28, 2025, at Duo at the Dunes in Albany? Empire Wine hosted the event. Were you Seen ...

Hirschsprung disease and meconium ileus both disrupt bowel movements and can require urgent medical attention. The two conditions have different causes and treatments. Hirschsprung disease happens ...

ALS drug effectively treats Alzheimer's disease in new animal study NU-9 acts on a common mechanism at play in both neurodegenerative diseases Date: April 8, 2025 Source: Northwestern University ...

But when your dad lost control of his body because of a rare neurodegenerative disease, and died a month after diagnosis, your body forgets. Needs reminding. Even almost three years later.

He had a genetic condition called Alexander disease, and the outlook was bleak. Immediately the geneticist said, “At the moment, there is no treatment, no cure and life expectancy is five to 10 ...