Disease

Alzheimer's disease has plagued one large Colombian family for generations, striking down half of its members in the prime of life. But one member of that family evaded what had seemed would be fate: Despite inheriting the genetic defect…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the country's first gene-editing treatment, Casgevy, for use in patients with sickle cell disease.The approval comes about a decade after the discovery of CRISPR technology for…

© Reuters. A view shows a part of Sidi El Barrak dam at low water levels, in Nafza, west of the capital Tunis, Tunisia, January 7, 2023. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change is the biggest…

After more than a month of being subjected to sustained bombing, the besieged people of the Gaza Strip are now confronted with another threat to life: disease. Overcrowding at shelters, a breakdown of basic sanitation, the rising…

The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning in late October 2023 urging consumers to avoid purchasing and to immediately stop using 26 over-the-counter eye drop products because of risk of eye infection that could result in…

– Data from Randomized Control Trial Will Advance Evidence for Evaluation and Treatment of Heart Disease by Studying Actual Disease: Atherosclerosis – ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Esperion (NASDAQ: ESPR) announced…

An NHS mobile screening project has identified more than 2,200 people in high-risk communities at risk of liver disease and liver cancer. Under a major NHS drive to catch more cancers earlier and save more lives, 12 on-the-spot liver…

Joseph Dearani, M.D., Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic: My name is Dr. Joseph Dearani, and I am the chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Mayo Clinic, with an area of expertise in pediatric and congenital heart disease. So today, I'd…

Paper reports that obesity exacerbates scarring of the heart’s muscular tissue (myocardial fibrosis) through recruitment of inflammasome ASC to the heart’s mitochondria, facilitating NLRP3 inflammasome assembly and activation leading to…

Pune, India, Oct. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to Fortune Business Insights, the global Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Market Size was valued at USD 1.73 billion in 2021 and is projected to grow from USD 2.25 billion in 2022 to…