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ADA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Most mornings, many people move from one task to the next without much thought. But for someone living with multiple system atrophy, those everyday moments can become some of life’s biggest challenges

Dallas Cowboys football player Marshawn Kneeland was suffering fromstage 1 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he died by suicide last year, scientists said

A nasty gastrointestinal bug is rapidly spreading in several states, with more than 700 cases confirmed in Michigan over the last few weeks. The demand for tests for cyclosporiasis, a pathogen often caused by contaminated fresh produce, is so intense, with so many patients seeking help for diarrhea and crippling abdominal cramps, that many labs…

The blazing heat that has become an unfortunate staple of the American summer is upon us again. And while it can create a host of health issues, there are also strategies for individuals and communities alike to employ to get through the worst of it

The viral trend that encourages women to “be a b**** or else you will develop an autoimmune disease” may have scientific backing, as studies have shown a link between suppressing emotions and the breakdown of the immune system

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Vanda) (Nasdaq: VNDA) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation to VCA-894A, Vanda’s investigational antisense oligonucleotide therapy for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, type 2S (CMT2S), a rare, serious, and progressive inherited neurological disorder. The designation…

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Bansi Nagji discusses the shifting science behind rare and orphan drug development, including what it takes for therapies to succeed well beyond launch

The arXiv:2312.15320GestaltMML paper was revised on July 6, 2026 and describes a Transformer-based multimodal model for rare genetic disease diagnosis. It combines frontal facial images, demographics and clinical text or HPO terms, and the authors report evaluations across 528 GestaltMatcher Database diseases plus several syndrome-specific cohorts. For practitioners, the important signal is that multimodal fusion…

ALEC is proud to recognize Sens. Donald Douglas, Stephen Meredith, Aaron Reed, and Shelley Funke Frommeyer, Reps. Ken Fleming and Bobby McCool, and Senate President Robert Stivers as ALEC Policy Champions for their successful effort to establish a framework for conducting clinical trials with ibogaine-based treatments in Kentucky