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Plano-based Secretome Therapeutics has reshaped its leadership team, hiring four executives and moving its chief medical officer into a new role as it heads toward late-stage trials for its lead therapy

The family of a 41-year-old Salvadoran man who died Saturday at an immigration detention center in New Jersey is claiming that medical negligence is to blame for his death

The Trump administration has recently spent more time talking about COVID-19 than it has about cyclosporiasis, the intestinal illness that’s become a growing threat to public health nationwide

Michigan health officials confirmed the first two deaths connected to the ongoing national outbreak of cyclosporiasis, the parasitic infection known for causing explosive diarrhea

The Ohio Department of Health is urging people to keep produce in their diet, despite fears of infection from the gut-churning parasite surging in the United States and commonly linked to fresh fruits and vegetables

For most of his life, teenager Connor Dalby could not walk by himself. As a baby, he experienced 50 to 100 seizures per day, his mother, Kelley Del Real, tells KPBS’ Heidi de Marco. Antiseizure drugs offered little relief. He was not expected to live past his fourth birthday due to his extremely rare genetic mutation,…

A child with a few light-brown spots on the skin may not appear seriously ill. Yet what looks like harmless birthmarks could be the earliest sign of Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), a lifelong genetic disorder that can affect nearly every organ system in the body. Despite being one of the world’s most common rare diseases,…

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming more lives annually than cancer and accidents combined, with more than 130 million adults living with some form of cardiovascular disease. Yet an equally urgent, and often overlooked, dimension of this crisis is the bidirectional relationship between behavioral health and heart health.…

Opus Genetics has completed patient enrollment in its registrational phase 3 clinical trial evaluating OPGx-LCA5, an investigational gene therapy for patients with LCA5-associated inherited retinal disease

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