The study, published in Neuroepidemiology, confirmed that Northern Scotland has one of the highest rates of Huntington's disease in the world at 14.5 per 100,000 people.

Health officials in Hood River County have reported an unusual cluster of people coming down with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD. Three residents in the area have contracted CJD over the past ...

A new study suggests artificial intelligence can predict premature death among people who have inflammatory bowel disease, also known as Crohn’s and colitis. Researchers used machine learning to ...

While CO₂ doesn’t transmit viruses itself, it acts as a proxy for indoor crowding and poor ventilation. The more people in a ...

Ministers are weighing up the need to declare Sars a notifiable disease, giving them sweeping powers to detain suspected sufferers to stop the virus spreading. As the global death toll from Sars ...

and resist disease better than their peers. Let’s explore the fascinating reasons behind this biological inequality and what it might mean for your health. Before diving into why some people ...

In 2022, 6.9% of US adults reported ever experiencing long COVID, according to the US Centers for Disease ... SARS-CoV-2 infection and is present for at least 3 months, according to the CDC ...

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 ...

ACE2 lets SARS-CoV-2 into nasal cells, while TMPRSS2 helps it activate by slicing its spike protein. The results suggested that people with higher gene expression of these proteins were over three ...

we may be able to identify young people at risk during health care visits. "Our results also highlight the need for further study of psychiatric disease/treatment as risk factors for SADS and the ...