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Carla Zingariello, DO On September 30, 2023, those across the globe come together to celebrate the ninth annual Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD) Awareness Day, an effort to raise awareness about a group of rare and progressive neuromuscular disorders. LGMDs, estimated in about 2 in every 100,000 individuals, are a group of diseases that cause weakness […]
WATCH TIME: 4 minutes Welcome to this special edition of Neurology News Network. I’m Marco Meglio. The FDA’s Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee has voted that current data on NurOwn, BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics’ stromal cell therapy, is not sufficient in demonstrating efficacy as a treatment for patients with mild to moderate amyotrophic lateral […]
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Sometimes the view of the political situation locally can be worrisome. That brings us to November’s Issue 1. This is the issue that places in the state constitution abortion rights. Since people aren’t reading the full text of the […]
EVERETT — Two new lawsuits filed this month allege more workers at Boeing’s plants in Everett were exposed to toxic chemicals that led to birth defects in their children. The latest lawsuits follow three others filed in recent years that revealed, as reported by The Daily Herald, that the aerospace giant’s top leaders knew of […]
Ji Ho Choi, MD, PhD The FDA recently approved HoneyNaps’ SOMNUM artificial intelligence (AI) sleep disease analysis algorithm, the first AI solution designed for diagnosing sleep disorders.1 SOMNUM, supported by eXplainable Medical AI technology, utilizes deep learning-based AI to conduct a real-time analysis of vast volumes of multi-channel/time series biosignals. The technology is believed to […]
You’ve got a lot of things to worry about as a parent, but RSV shouldn’t be one of them—at least not anymore On Sept. 22, the CDC recommended the first vaccine for pregnant people to protect their newborns from contracting RSV, a common respiratory virus that presents as a pesky cold for most people but […]
Image Source : FREEPIK A renowned doctor has explained how to nurture young hearts for lifelong health. Heart disease in children can be either in the form of congenital heart disease (CHD) or acquired heart disease. While the prevalence of CHD has remained almost the same there has been a concerning rise in the prevalence […]
In a recent study published in Cell, researchers explored the associations between autozygosity, measured as the fraction of the genome in runs of homozygosity (FROH), and common diseases, focusing on populations with high consanguinity rates. Study: Influence of autozygosity on common disease risk across the phenotypic spectrum. Image Credit: MiniStocker/Shutterstock.com Background The prevalence of consanguinity, […]
