This article is part of “Innovations In: Kidney Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. There is also good news for hopeful parents.

Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that ...

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Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases. Last February ...

A new experimental scalp treatment called clascoterone has shown strong results in helping reduce male-pattern hair loss (also known as androgenetic alopecia, or AGA). Experts call the results ...

Treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) currently consists of two main approaches — continuous therapy with Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors and fixed-duration regimens combining venetoclax ...

“The most important lifestyle factor [in FCS] is a strict low-fat diet,” says David H. Hsi, MD, chief of cardiology and co-director of the Heart and Vascular Institute at Stamford Health in ...

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 ...

Every cell in the human body operates on an intricate internal schedule, governed by circadian rhythms that synchronize our biological processes with the 24-hour cycle of day and night. Coordinated by ...

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 ...

Histopathological image of multiple myoloma. Smear preparation of bone marrow aspirate stained with May-Grünwald-Giemsa procedure. It doest not represent a histopathologic image but essentially helps ...

Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and deadly neurodegenerative disorder, at his clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. But a Wednesday in ...