Almost 100 people fell sick in a Clostridium perfringens outbreak in China in 2024. In May 2024, an elderly care center in Beijing reported dozens of ...

Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...

Credit: rob dobi via Getty Images. Against the stark backdrop of the FDA job cuts, stakeholders in the rare disease space find themselves facing heightened uncertainty. In late March 2025, the Trump ...

This hideous disease causes the body's nervous system to shut down, slowly paralysing the patient until they are unable to breathe. Tragically, there is no cure or treatment. As the cases piled up ...

Health officials in Hood River County have reported an unusual cluster of people coming down with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD. Three residents in the area have contracted CJD over the past ...

The UK government has brought in a temporary ban on holidaymakers bringing in cheese and meat products from the EU in a bid to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease (FMD). Travellers have ...

French drugmaker Sanofi agreed to pay $125 million to startup Earendil Labs for two drug candidates designed to treat autoimmune and inflammatory bowel diseases. Under the terms of the deal announced ...

A cluster of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease cases have been reported out of Hood River County, Ore. The disease is caused by misfolded proteins, or prions, which are also the cause of a disease in deer ...

Parkinson’s disease is caused by a progressive loss of dopamine-releasing (dopaminergic) neurons in the brain. Clinical trials of a stem-cell-based treatment were carried out by Sawamoto and ...