Kenneth Hobby assumed his fever, fatigue and aching pains on that day in May 2018 were from another bout of malaria. He was visiting Zambia in southern Africa — the stomping grounds of his childhood and a place where the mosquito-borne parasite is common. He had returned to the vast [...]

Finding an effective antidepressant medication for people diagnosed with depression, also called major depressive disorder, is often a long and complex process of "try and try again" ― going from one prescription to the next until achieving a therapeutic response. This complex disease, which affects more than 16 million people in [...]

In a new study published in Circulation, Mayo Clinic researchers provide the first preclinical, proof-of-concept study for hybrid gene therapy in long QT syndrome, a potentially lethal heart rhythm condition. Researchers demonstrated its potential therapeutic efficacy in two in vitro model systems using beating heart cells reengineered from the blood samples [...]