By Deena Beasley (Reuters) -Gene therapy, with its offer of a possible cure for rare diseases like sickle cell, is losing ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.

POLG-related diseases disrupt the function of the mitochondria, or "powerhouses" of the cell — starving them of energy.

A long-term human trial has found that a discontinued drug halved the presentation of early-onset Alzheimer's disease in ...

Actor Gene Hackman died of natural causes, New Mexico’s chief medical examiner said today. His wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of ...

The 94-year-old died of heart disease and complications caused by Alzheimer’s disease, according to the New Mexico medical ...

Gene Hackman “was in very poor health” before his death, which was caused by heart problems and advanced Alzheimer’s disease, ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

Gene Hackman died a full week after his wife Betsy Arakawa died and lived in the house as her body lay in the bathroom ...

Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their home last week in a gated community in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The challenge of the obesity epidemic is widespread and one that even pediatricians face constantly,” a Connecticut doctor ...