Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO Key Takeaways Fatal familial insomnia is a rare genetic disorder that affects sleep and other brain functions.There is no cure for the disease, but research ...

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

The first sign of my father’s decline came at his lunchtime basketball game. At 66-years-old, he’d always been healthy and active. Then he tripped during a game. A few weeks later, he forgot where to ...

Randy Dotinga writes: Here’s something to keep you up at night: People who have trouble falling asleep are three times more likely to die an early death, a new study shows. That’s especially bad news ...