Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...

Generalized anxiety disorder affects 1 in 20 U.S. adults. Those with serious symptoms may isolate themselves to the point they rarely leave their home and are unable to work and build meaningful ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is typically measured on a scale called the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), which determines how many times you stop breathing (apnea) and how often your breathing is ...

Mary is the bedrock of her family. “She’s the one we all go to,” says her son Eric. “She’s selfless, extremely sweet, very personable—but she can also be very feisty.” So when she returned from an eye ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Compared to the simmering summers Southern California usually experiences, the past few months have been relatively cool. While these summer temperatures aren't setting any ...

Panelists discuss how spinal muscular atrophy is an autosomal recessive genetic disease affecting motor neurons with 3 currently approved disease-modifying therapies that restore SMN protein ...

Globally, 23.7% of older adults have mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Proper health strategies are necessary to diagnose and treat people who have MCI, according to a new report. MCI is an early stage ...

The benefits of weight training are many: it promotes gains in strength and muscle mass, reduces body fat, and contributes to well-being and mental health. And now a study carried out at the State ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

Since 2016, the FDA has approved three disease-modifying treatments for spinal muscular atrophy, with several companies—including Novartis, Scholar Rock and Biogen—progressing novel candidates through ...

A popular awareness campaign now in its second year that encouraged people to get flu vaccines to reduce their risk of severe infection has been halted at the CDC, NPR reports. The “Wild to Mild” ...