Victor Sung, M.D., director of the Division of Movement Disorders in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology and director of the UAB Huntington’s Disease Clinic, reacted to the ...

Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and deadly neurodegenerative disorder, at his clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. But a Wednesday in ...

A gene therapy injected into patients’ brains slowed progression of the disease by 75 percent, preliminary findings reported. By Dana G. Smith Preliminary results from a small clinical trial to treat ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Acute surgical emergencies during pregnancy are uncommon but carry high maternal-fetal risks. The physiological changes of gestation often mask symptoms, leading to diagnostic ...

A new 16-bed secure residential treatment facility is opening in east Salem. The $9 million project was developed by Oregon Community First Solutions and paid for by the state. The facility offers a ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A growing number of people in Central Virginia are being diagnosed with Alpha-Gal Syndrome. It’s an allergy caused by tick bites that makes eating—or even being near—meat or ...

Shawn Connolly, a former skateboarding professional, follows the directions of Nicholas B. Galifianakis, MD, while testing a deep brain stimulation treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Photo by Maurice ...

The following is a summary of “Effect of the timing of endoscopic detorsion on clinical outcomes in patients with sigmoid volvulus,” published in the January 2025 issue of Gastroenterology by Aminov ...

Close to 1 in 3 adolescents in the U.S. received mental health treatment in 2023, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported Tuesday, which works out to around 8.3 million ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. One morning at the end of April 2023, Marcela Maus, a cancer researcher at ...