Approximately 5,000 people in the U.S. develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) each year. On average, they survive for only two to five years after being diagnosed, according to the Centers for ...

Researchers have uncovered a mechanism that may trigger ALS’s earliest stages, identifying proteins that mislocalize, causing ...

Approximately 5,000 people in the U.S. develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) each year. On average, they survive for ...

According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, numbness is one of the most common symptoms of the disease. Another person who was diagnosed with MS said their thighs would feel like they were ...

By Dr. Kaushik Mandal Rare diseases very often remain in the shadows, as common people have limited awareness about them.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) impacts Colorado deer, with half the herds infected. This prion disease has no cure, and its ...

NASS’s 2024 Research Funding Program announced grants and traveling fellowships winners totaling $159,059 this year.

She detailed the effect the autoimmune disease, “I can’t even pick up my phone sometimes…or get my remote…sometimes I can’t ...

Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are showing potential to transform treatments ...

Leal Therapeutics raised $45 million for drug development, including advancing a promising therapy into clinical trials for ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...

These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot respond to signals ... live in hope of simply standing or sitting upright. But neuromuscular disease specialist Charlotte Sumner ...