Country music icon retiring with rare disease. Here’s what to know
He took the stage and was great last week at the Grand Ole Opry’s 100th anniversary show, and now he is down to just two ...
Body camera footage from Gene Hackman death investigation released
Hackman died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer’s disease a full week after a rare, rodent-borne disease took ...
My son died of a rare cancer — and now funding to find a cure is in jeopardy
Suzanne Vincze is the founder of the Max Vincze Foundation, which funds research for NUT carcinoma at the Dana-Farber Cancer ...
What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’
That era might now be over. In recent years, the U.S. had already begun to neglect its public-health infrastructure, ...
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MDA Reflects on 75 Years of Research and the Precarious Times Ahead
Speakers from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) highlighted 75 years of progress in understanding and treating ...
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A Doctor Explains All About Hantavirus
It can be frustrating to diagnose HPS because there are no specific tests for it. To diagnose, doctors tend to look at the history of rodent exposure with accompanying fever and fatigue. So, its ...
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? I n March 2009, ...
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Speed, Scale, and Success – The Rise of Bispecific Antibodies in Targeted Therapies
Bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) have emerged as a transformative class of biologics, offering dual-targeting mechanisms that ...
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Avian Influenza: What Infectious Disease Physicians Need to Know
Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...
Polar plunge raises thousands for John Hudson Dilgen, Staten Islander with rare skin disease
Dilgen, a 22-year-old Tottenville resident, has been battling epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare, life-threatening genetic ...
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Unraveling an oral health mystery leads to rare autoimmune diagnosis
Culton and Myers stressed the importance of raising awareness about these rare diseases and of getting more physicians and ...
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My battle with rare inherited kidney disorder that has no cure
A cat has nine lives, but I believe that I have more. While I can’t remember the exact date that I started feeling sick, I have struggled with fatigue for a long time. I thought it was just that, a ...