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U.S. President Donald Trump signed a spending package into law Tuesday that reauthorizes the FDA’s previously stalled rare ...

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026, signed by Trump on Feb. 3, includes a provision reinstating the Mikaela Naylon ...

Researchers at UMass Lowell have uncovered an innovative way to spot Alzheimer’s disease long before the first official ...

A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates 2 million people are incorrectly told they have TB each year — and clinicians miss ...

More than half of people with advanced kidney disease develop heart problems.

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Actor turned rare disease advocate Luke Rosen tells how his daughter, Susannah, lives with a KIF1A-associated neurological ...

How to make sense of new federal guidelines on nutrition and improve your diet. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans aim to ...

High blood pressure, heart disease, and hyperlipidemia are some of the top modifiable factors linked to dementia risk, mounting evidence suggests.

Scientists have identified a key reason why more than half of people with chronic kidney disease eventually die from heart-related conditions. New evidence shows that damaged kidneys release a ...

A new analysis of gene expression in blood samples suggests that specific biological signs of Parkinson’s disease are detectable years before physical symptoms appear. These molecular signatures, ...