Motor neuron diseases are a group of fatal progressive disorders that rob the body and brain of the ability to function.

Ms. Arakawa, the wife of the actor Gene Hackman, died from the effects of a disease often caused by contact with droppings ...

Herpesvirus infection may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease through transposable element activation and neuroinflammation.

A blood test can help doctors detect ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and predict how the degenerative disease ...

University of Pittsburgh researchers uncovered a surprising link between Alzheimer's disease and herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1 ... such as Parkinson's disease and ALS. Other authors of the ...

Living in a disadvantaged community may decrease the length of time a person can survive with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, by over 30%, a Michigan Medicine-led study suggests. ALS is a ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive degeneration of motor neurons, leading to muscle weakness and eventually death.

In America, incidence of the disease dropped from almost 58,000 reported cases in 1952 to just 1,000 cases 10 years later. Dr. Albert Sabin followed in 1957 with a "live" or active virus vaccine ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- California has introduced a new initiative to advance critical research for ALS and related neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, Alzeheimer's ...

Voyager Therapeutics no longer expects to sail its amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS ... same capsid is used in the VY1706 Alzheimer’s disease program. That drug has been shown to reduce ...

Examples of neurodegenerative diseases include Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and ALS. The money will also be used to help recruit biomedical research faculty at all career stages ...