Actor turned rare disease advocate Luke Rosen tells how his daughter, Susannah, lives with a KIF1A-associated neurological ...

Jonathan Hughes, diagnosed with rare Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, pursues his dream of completing a 5K race with community support in San Diego.

A new study reveals a critical vulnerability in a brain receptor targeted by a rare autoimmune disease. Researchers have ...

No standard treatments for the sometimes deadly disorder have been developed, but that may change due to the newly published research.

Virginia Tech researchers discovered an indication hidden in the brain that may help doctors identify children suffering from ...

Two people have died and a third remains under investigation after health officials in Hood River County identified multiple cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but deadly brain disorder ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that rare cases of brain inflammation ...

A "gene silencer" (technically known as small interfering RNA, or siRNA), locally delivered by nanoparticles embedded in an ...

Civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson washospitalized on Wednesday in Chicago, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition announced. His family told ABC7 that he remained stable Thursday evening while ...

For some time, we've known that it's rare to see people with both cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Now, scientists believe ...

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis arise when the immune system turns against the body itself. Yet for most of them, it remains unclear why this process begins. Researchers have now ...