This local financial advisor, husband and father of two, describes his battle with a rare disease as an ordeal that became as ...

Given its investment in researching and treating the disease, Annexon recently launched Move GBS Forward, the first awareness campaign about the syndrome. Love explains that while physicians study GBS ...

Jerry Escamilla is preparing for Bloomsday with a personal mission. Diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) in December 2021, a disease that affects nerve fibers controlling muscles, Jerry ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - In 2011, Shane Sumlin's life changed overnight after being diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder ...

Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...

This hideous disease causes the body's nervous system to shut down, slowly paralysing the patient until they are unable to breathe. Tragically, there is no cure or treatment. As the cases piled up ...

Background Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is characterized by acute onset and progressive course, and is usually associated with a good prognosis. However, there are forms of poor prognosis ...

Health officials in Hood River County have reported an unusual cluster of people coming down with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD. Three residents in the area have contracted CJD over the past ...

Background: Although intrapartum antimicrobial prophylaxis has lowered the incidence of early onset group B Streptococcus (GBS) sepsis, there are concerns that the increased use of antibiotics may ...

“Functional” constipation describes chronic constipation not explained by another disease. It is not related to IBS and is very common. Functional constipation differs from IBS in that it is ...