A study explores the benefits of meditation-relaxation therapy for people with narcolepsy who experience sleep paralysis.Share on PinterestMeditation-relaxation therapy may help people who experience sleep paralysis.A new study in the journal Frontiers in Neurology reports that around 20% of people worldwide experience sleep paralysis. As the lead study authors explain, finding oneself mentally awake as…
Biomarin Pharmaceutical, a California company that makes what could become the first gene therapy for hemophilia, says its drug's price tag might be $3 million per patient. Maciej Frolow/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Maciej Frolow/Getty Images Biomarin Pharmaceutical, a California company that makes what could become the first gene therapy for hemophilia, says its…
(CNN)A combination of three antiviral drugs plus an immune system booster seemed to help patients recover more quickly from coronavirus infections, doctors in Hong Kong reported Friday. They said the approach needs more testing but it could offer another tre…
Doctors say an experimental treatment using blood plasma does work and helped save the life of a coronavirus patient near death.The male patient had been on a ventilator at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was only getting worse.The hospital had just received its first batch of blood plasma from a recovered coronavirus…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…