Tag Archives: Disease

Almost 16 years after he  was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, George Martin says he has his life back — thanks to a first-of-its-kind technology. The 68-year-old lives in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, but the NeuroSphere Virtual Clinic allows his doctors to treat him remotely from Toronto.  It’s reduced the tremors caused by his …

Two weeks ago, Melanie Paradis got a call from her son’s Belleville, Ont., daycare that there was a case of hand-foot-and-mouth disease — an illness she had never heard of but one that would have her son in agony for days. Three days later, her one-year-old son Everett “was just crying inconsolably.” “It’s not life-threatening but …

Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. People with Alzheimer’s also experience changes in behavior and personality. More than 6 million Americans, many of them age 65 and older, are estimated to have Alzheimer’s disease. …

Two cases of the rare disease Monkeypox have been detected in north Wales this week. Public Health Wales officials have confirmed that two members of the same household were affected recently and both patients have been admitted to hospital in England as a precaution.  Richard Firth Consultant in Health Protection …

Andrea Park / FierceBiotech: PathAI, which develops AI-powered technology for disease diagnosis and treatment, raises $165M Series C led by D1 Capital Partners and Kaiser Permanente  —  If its hundreds of millions in venture funding and wide-ranging cadre of big-named partners are any indication, PathAI’s (ahem) path forward appears to …