Debilitating

Reading the news in the past few weeks has frequently left me feeling nauseous, faint and panicked. If it wasn’t the story of a woman from Ecuador knocking from the inside of her coffin during her wake, it was an article about the Titan…

One day in July 2021, my then 15-year-old daughter Poppy stumbled and fell while walking down some stairs, grazing her knee. It wasn't a serious wound, but over the weeks it didn't heal.Around the same time, her wrists and…

A new study published on Dec. 14, 2022 in the New England Journal of Medicine reports the identification of a previously unknown genetic cause of a late-onset cerebellar ataxia, a discovery that will improve diagnosis and open new treatment…

A treatment strategy using an antibody that inhibits a cell signalling protein called interleukin-11 (IL-11) could lead to new hope for people with a debilitating genetic kidney disease called Alport syndrome. Scientists from Duke-NUS…

A clinical trial at UC Davis Health and six other sites showed that a cellular therapy offers promise for patients with late-stage Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disorder causing muscle loss and physical impairments in…

ATLANTA (AP) — Weather forecasters' predictions of debilitating snow and ice as far south as Georgia sent…

For decades, researchers have suspected that people infected with an exceedingly common virus, Epstein-Barr, might be more likely to develop multiple sclerosis, a neurological illness that affects a million people in the United States. Now,…

Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research shows. Guinea worm disease is usually caught by drinking water containing water fleas that carry the parasite larvae. The worms…

To track cardiovascular health, doctors measure blood pressure, cholesterol levels and blood sugar, among a number of other cardiovascular disease risk factors. Such measures can help predict whether a person is at risk of heart attack or…

Los Angeles, USA, June 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Optic Nerve Diseases Pipeline: New Therapies to come for Debilitating Eye Diseases Optic Nerve Diseases pipeline landscape offers 30+ Key companies and 30+ key therapies with gene…