The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved omaveloxolone (Skyclarys), the first treatment for patients aged 16 and over, in the UK for a rare neurodegenerative ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans ...

Having a larger waistline, high blood pressure and other risk factors that make up metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of young-onset dementia, according to a new study.

A ransomware attack in January at Frederick Health Medical Group, a major healthcare provider in Maryland, has led to a data breach affecting nearly one million patients. With almost 4,000 ...

Broken heart syndrome' is a condition that occurs when the pumping function of a person's heart weakens due to emotional or physical stress Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

In an effort to find a cure for a rare disease called Fredrick’s Ataxia (FA) , a Northern California man started putting on ...

Biogen’s Skyclarys (omaveloxolone) has been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) as the first treatment for patients aged 16 years and older with the rare ...

Alive@Five is a summer-long fundraiser for Downtown Frederick Partnership, featuring 21 weeks of live music along scenic Carroll Creek Park in downtown Frederick. All proceeds from the event ...

to its investigational anti-sense Oligonucleotide therapeutic for the treatment of Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA), including Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3 (SCA3), a progressive and currently ...

Diagnosis: Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) resulting from a premutation (CGG repeat) expansion of the FMR1 gene. Management: Explanation of the genetic ramifications of ...

One of the world’s largest footwear companies is developing a shoe specifically tailored to the needs of people with Down syndrome. Adidas said it is working with Chris Nikic, who is known as the ...

In the latest such research at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Alana Down Syndrome Center at MIT, scientists found that 40Hz sensory stimulation improved cognition and circuit ...