Met-Met patients demonstrate a different sleep pattern than Met-Val patients, including severe fragmentation, brief but repeated episodes of sudden-onset REM (with oneiric enactment), and an ...

To entreat compliance, DF stressed his fatal diagnosis and the interest of science. Although his good days were often punctuated with symptoms of his illness (such as fever, high blood pressure ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends ...

The effects of sleep deprivation have been well studied. Sleep deprivation happens when you do not get enough sleep, or good quality sleep, to meet your body's needs. Not getting adequate sleep ...

People with highly sedentary jobs — accounting for 80% of the current US workforce — face a significantly higher risk of insomnia, according to a new study published January 7 in the Journal ...

2:04 Unusual court appearance in B.C. triple-fatal crash Emotions were running high outside the Invermere Law Courts Monday, as family members and friends of three young men killed in an alleged ...

Only 4,000 people in Britain are currently suffering from this disease; only 5 per cent have the familial variety and I am one of those unfortunate few. In simple terms, the disease is a very fast ...