The Latest Breaking News from Disease

If you watched Kim Kardashian’s latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase “holes on the brain”, you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a hole does not mean missing tissue. It signals a region working…

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) on Saturday presented data from multiple studies demonstrating the clinical benefits of Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) in patients aged 5 years and older with severe sickle cell disease (SCD) or transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT).

Participant’s Parkinson’s score dropped to value resembling that of healthy person, researchers say

Study estimated humans consume 250g of microplastics, the size of a dinner plate, every year

The former rugby league star is running seven ultramarathons in seven days to raise money for motor neurone disease.

When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths across countries, I found myself pausing as the numbers loaded on the screen. Even as a scientist used to large datasets, the scale was hard to process.

Learn more about silent kidney disease signs, chronic kidney symptoms, and kidney failure early signs that are often ignored.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) placed a clinical hold on Denali Therapeutics Inc.’s (NASDAQ:DNLI) investigational new drug (IND) application for the Phase 1 study of DNL952 under development for Pompe disease.

Discover the longevity diet secrets: blue zones foods like beans, greens, and nuts, plus healthy aging tips from world's longest-living people for vibrant, extended lifespan.

The committee advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy voted on Dec. 5, 2025, to stop recommending that all newborns be routinely vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus – undoing a 34-year prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B infections in the United…

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