Context: Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a genetically transmitted neurodegenerative prion disease that incurs great suffering and has neither a treatment nor a cure. The clinical literature is ...

Former report's brother dies He battled a rare brain disease The brother of former Channel Nine reporter Hayley Webb has died ...

Lachlan Webb was diagnosed with the incurable genetic disease fatal familial insomnia (FII) in 2023, a day after he and his ...

Lachlan Webb was diagnosed with the incurable genetic disease fatal familial insomnia (FII) in 2023, a day after he and his ...

Lachlan Webb was diagnosed with the incurable genetic disease fatal familial insomnia (FII) in 2023, a day after he and his wife Claire celebrated their son Morrison’s first birthday.

A Brisbane father has died a month after being diagnosed with an ultra-rare genetic condition that he dubbed the family ‘curse’.

DF's resourcefulness in implementing treatment is in itself testimony to the essential preservation of intelligence in patients with FFI. Although formal neuropsychological testing was not ...

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AN ancient disease has been making a comeback and it could be caused by an acid reflux drug, a new study has warned. Health experts have recently suggested scurvy - a condition caused by a lack of ...