Biohaven's troriluzole candidate for spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) has been turned down by the FDA, causing shares in the company to lose more than 40% of their value in pre-market trading. The news is ...

A clinical approach applying 3 distinct syndromes helps clinicians differentiate benign from catastrophic causes of vertigo, ...

People living with a rare neurological degenerative disease have called on the Government to make the first treatment for the disease available to them. Yesterday, a group of campaigners travelled to ...

A specialist nurse to support patients with the neurological condition ataxia has started work in the South West. It is a rare disorder that mainly affects balance and co-ordination. Charity Ataxia UK ...

A normal 10-second daily activity takes me 10 minutes some days if my legs aren’t being cooperative. As winter nears, the weather continues to get colder. The temperature is slowly dropping here in ...

In the CRL, the Agency concluded that the NDA could not be accepted due to issues that are inherent to real-world evidence and external control studies. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

Home-based high-intensity aerobic training was associated with greater improvement in cerebellar ataxia symptoms, fitness, and fatigue compared with guidelines-recommended balance training in a ...

Despite the roadblock, PTC Therapeutics plans to meet with the FDA to discuss potential next steps for vatiquinone. (Getty Images) PTC Therapeutics has long been trying to workshop its vatiquinone ...

Ataxia telangiectasia (AT) is a rare genetic condition that people inherit from their parents. AT affects the part of the brain that controls movement and coordination. Ataxia is when a person has ...

A University of Oklahoma researcher is the first to discover that the sequence of the genetic defect in the neuromuscular disease Friedreich's ataxia isn't always as uniform as previously thought, a ...