Rare diseases reveal that our sense of identity rests on fragile biological infrastructure, much of it operating outside ...

Women are far more likely than men to end up with Alzheimer's disease (AD). This may, at least partially, be due to women's longer average lifespans, but many scientists think there is probably more ...

Mary is the bedrock of her family. “She’s the one we all go to,” says her son Eric. “She’s selfless, extremely sweet, very personable—but she can also be very feisty.” So when she returned from an eye ...

The earlier patients with potentially blinding geographic atrophy start treatment with the complement inhibitor pegcetacoplan, the more retinal tissue they retain 4 years later compared with patients ...

Geographic atrophy (GA) is one of two kinds of advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It’s an eye disease that damages cells in the central part of your retina called the macula. Late-stage ...

Geographic atrophy (GA), the late stage of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), may lead to vision loss. Here’s what to expect as the condition progresses. About 1 million people in the United ...

Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) causes a loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem. It mainly affects facial and swallowing muscles and the muscles in the arms and legs. Previously, ...

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Adult-onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare neuromuscular disorder that primarily affects the motor neurons in the spinal cord, leading to muscle weakness and atrophy. SMA is part of a group ...

For adults in midlife, difficulty getting to sleep and waking up too early may accelerate brain atrophy that is associated with dementia. The brain naturally begins to atrophy beginning in one’s 30s ...

Syfovre, also known as pegcetacoplan, is a medicine used to treat geographic atrophy, which is the advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration. Geographic atrophy can cause irreversible ...

If you have geographic atrophy (GA), what likely started out as tiny specks in your central vision may have grown to noticeable blind spots in both eyes that make it difficult to see directly in front ...