What is Blount's disease? Blount's disease (also known as Blount disease) is a form of bowleg deformity at or just below the knee joint. It is caused by an abnormality of the growth plate in one or ...

Telangiectasia is a common condition that affects many otherwise healthy people. But can also be a sign of a more serious disease. Telangiectasias (commonly known as "spider veins") are dilated or ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are several deadly diseases that strike Blacks harder and more often than they do other groups, particularly whites. What are the ones affecting us the most?

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that China is facing a rapidly escalating crisis in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, with rates increasing faster than the global average. Credit: Shutterstock Alzheimer’s ...

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 ...

"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 ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The Southern Nevada Health District advises guests who have recently stayed at The Grandview or South Point Hotel to monitor symptoms of Legionnaires’ disease and take ...