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’.

Symptoms of FFI generally begin at an average age of 56 (range 18 to 73 years). Despite the name, insomnia may not be the first symptom of the disease. Neuropsychiatric issues, movement problems, and ...

The precise cause of death in FFI patients is unclear ... some functions that are disrupted or unbalanced by the ongoing disease (such as sleep and autonomic function) may terminate life even ...

Watson is confronted with a case of fatal familial insomnia, which is coupled with the challenge of trying to help a pregnant woman with the neurodegenerative prion disease live long enough to ...