Victor Sung, M.D., director of the Division of Movement Disorders in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology and director of the UAB Huntington’s Disease Clinic, reacted to the ...

A new treatment that proves to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease (HD) marks a breakthrough for a condition that has long been considered untreatable. Huntington’s is a rare, inherited ...

A gene therapy injected into patients’ brains slowed progression of the disease by 75 percent, preliminary findings reported. By Dana G. Smith Preliminary results from a small clinical trial to treat ...

With informed consent, you generally have the right to seek a second opinion or refuse treatment unless refusing poses a danger to the community or a court of law declares you “mentally incompetent.” ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A growing number of people in Central Virginia are being diagnosed with Alpha-Gal Syndrome. It’s an allergy caused by tick bites that makes eating—or even being near—meat or ...

Shawn Connolly, a former skateboarding professional, follows the directions of Nicholas B. Galifianakis, MD, while testing a deep brain stimulation treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Photo by Maurice ...

Hidradenitis suppurativa is managed with biologics like adalimumab and secukinumab, approved for moderate-to-severe cases. Adalimumab, a TNF-α inhibitor, was FDA-approved in 2015, while secukinumab, ...

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (KABC) -- It's being called a potential game-changer in fighting certain types of cancer and it uses highly-focused soundwaves. For destroying tumors, histotripsy offers many ...

Mona Bafadhel receives funding from the National Institute of Health Research, Asthma+Lung UK, and Horizon Europe. For this study, Mona Bafadhel received funding from AstraZeneca to complete the study ...

Words can certainly hurt—but so can the absence of them. If you’ve ever had a partner pretend you don’t exist mid-argument or stop talking until you take all the blame, you understand what we’re ...

Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training, University of Montana The percentage of Americans seeking mental health treatment nearly doubled between 2004 and 2022, with almost a quarter ...