Neurodegenerative diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterized by the progressive degeneration of the structure and function of the central nervous system or peripheral ...

This article covers some of the most common lysosomal storage disorders. Fabry disease. It affects your body's ability to make alpha-galactosidase A. This enzyme breaks down a fatty substance ...

Diseases are abnormal conditions that have a specific set of signs and symptoms. Diseases can have an external cause, such as an infection, or an internal cause, such as autoimmune diseases ...

Smothered in haze, the trees couldn’t produce fruit, leaving resident fruit bats with no other option than to fly elsewhere in search of food, carrying with them a deadly disease. Not long after ...

Pictures of Lyme disease rash can help you know if you have this condition. A telltale sign of Lyme disease is a red, circular, or oval rash that expands over time like a bull's-eye. This type of ...

Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers have identified a potential new way to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a deadly and currently incurable lung disease that affects more than 3 million people ...

While rare genetic diseases are uncommon, as their name suggests, there are more than 7,000 types of disease caused by mutations in more than 5,000 known genes, affecting approximately 300 million ...

June 2, 2025 — Chronic inflammatory bowel disease is challenging to treat and carries a risk of complications, including the development of bowel cancer. Young people are particularly affected ...

The FDA granted rare pediatric disease designation for OCU410ST, a gene therapy designed to treat ABCA4-associated retinopathies including Stargardt disease, retinitis pigmentosa 19 and cone-rod ...

(Ocugen or the Company) (NASDAQ: OCGN), a pioneering biotechnology leader in gene therapies for blindness diseases, today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA ...

Those benefits included a reduction of risk for both chronic diseases and death from all causes. The study, published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open, analyzed data of about 23,000 people ...

"The report shines a necessary spotlight on a crisis that has long been ignored: skyrocketing rates of obesity, diabetes, autoimmune disease, developmental issues and mental health challenges ...