Last June, when 36-year-old Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ “Iron Horse,” said good-by to baseball, no insurance company would have considered him a good risk. For Gehrig was benched by a rare ...

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? I n March 2009, ...

Dec. 5, 2019 — For decades the renowned English physicist Stephen Hawking lived with a motor neuron disease until his death last year. People who suffer from this condition lose functionality of brain ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge became the third-fastest New York Yankees player to reach 500 extra-base hits with a three-run homer in the first inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday night, ...

Holly Turner's doctors initially thought her tremors were due to stress, but they were symptoms of ALS Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

A Regina mother who was one of the first ALS patients to test a new treatment is now celebrating its accelerated approval in Canada for adults with an ultra-rare form of the disease. Paula ...

In a memoir set to be published Tuesday, a former Facebook employee lays out allegations of misconduct at the company, including claims of sexual harassment and what she says were incomplete ...

New drug shows success lowering genetically inherited heart disease risk Nearly a quarter of the world's population has elevated risk, doctor says Elevated lipoprotein levels bring the risk of ...

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that comes from the bite of a black-legged tick. It’s most common in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Upper-Midwest regions of the United States. Using ...

Kansas Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Wilson, pictured here in May 2022, will retire from the bench in July following a Lou Gehrig’s disease diagnosis. THAD ALLTON/KANSAS REFLECTOR BY ANNA ...

Researchers have reported a link between cardiovascular issues and hot weather, forecasting that heart disease could double or triple in the next 25 years if current climate trends continue.