Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. won a major FDA approval on Thursday, one that could propel the Cambridge company toward a major milestone — finally reaching profitability.

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What initially seems like purely psychological trouble may indeed have roots in physical conditions that, once identified, ...

Federally funded research at Johns Hopkins offers new avenues for detecting brain disease long before it strikes ...

Biosciences presented data from the KINECT-HD study showcasing significant improvements in chorea across body regions with ...

Five years after the WHO declared the COVID global outbreak to be a pandemic, frontline health care workers reflect on what they remember of the early days of COVID.

The USDA made an agreement with the state in January 2023 to begin a program called Local Foods for Schools (LFS) that would ...

The happiest cities combine elements of healthy living, thriving communities, and work-life balance. Five of the top 10 are ...

Neurological motor disorders (NMDs) such as Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease are characterized by the accumulation and aggregation of misfolded proteins that trigger cell death of specific ...