NEW YORK — Close gatherings over the Thanksgiving holiday could cause an uptick in emergency room visits in New York due to a trio of respiratory illnesses that typically rise this time of year, as ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause ...

Medically reviewed by Archana Sharma, DO Key Takeaways Mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are linked to triple-negative ...

The most common cause of inherited prion diseases is the E200K mutation of the prion protein (PrP). It is often thought that this mutation causes disease by making PrP more susceptible to misfolding ...

Medically reviewed by Brigid Dwyer, MD Key Takeaways Huntington’s disease is a genetic condition that is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern.The genetic change that causes Huntington’s disease ...

Sickle cell disease is a hereditary condition, which means a person inherits it from their biological parents. The condition occurs when a person inherits two copies of the hemoglobin beta (HBB) gene ...

According to Science Alert, neuroscientists from Johns Hopkins University have recently discovered a new treatment for Parkinson's disease using an FDA-approved cancer drug. A recent study published ...

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...

Close gatherings over the Thanksgiving holiday could cause an uptick in emergency room visits in California due to a trio of respiratory illnesses, including a new mutation of the common flu that ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause ...