Okpi Bernard Adaafu, a legal practitioner, has dragged the federal government of Nigeria before the Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging the legality of a controversial health data sharing ...

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Immigration crackdowns in Minnesota are causing fearful immigrant families to avoid hospitals, leading to canceled surgeries and missed medical care.

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Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.

Maria Baum, a 22-year-old Ohio resident born with Williams syndrome, has defied medical odds while pursuing her passion for ...

Learn about comparative gene expression studies in Alzheimer's disease and other conditions in Mayo Clinic's Precision Medicine in Neurodegeneration Lab.

An analysis of two large cohort studies finds that carriers of disease-causing variants within genes for three ...

Yentli Soto Albrecht, who is a genetic carrier of ALS, is working on research at Penn that could one day prove life-saving.