When his infant son was diagnosed with a rare disease, a Canadian father was dismayed to discover there was no treatment or cure. So he set out to make one himself. Terry Pirovolakis, an IT director in Toronto, Ontario, welcomed his third son in Dec. 2017. It was a “normal, healthy birth,” he told Fox...
An Arkansas man has been arrested and charged with a decades-old rape and murder of a young woman in Washington after DNA from his cigarette linked him to the victim. “I was just so relieved,” Kent Police Det. Sgt. Tim Ford, the lead investigator on the case, told Fox News Digital. Kent detectives and Van...
A rare disease called SPG50 affects fewer than 100 people in the world — and one of them is Naomi Lockard, a 3-year-old in Colorado. An experimental genetic therapy has shown promise in stopping the disease’s progression — but it is far too expensive for most families to afford. Rebekah Lockard, the girl’s mother, is...
A serial killer convicted of the murders of 12 women has confessed to the cold case murder of a 19-year-old mother in Southern California in 1986. Cathy Small, 19, was found stabbed to death on a street in South Pasadena in February 1986, but her case went unsolved for nearly four decades. “We believe we’re...
Nearly three decades after a teenage Montana girl was found dead near a fishing access point, a married father of two identified as her suspected killer took his own life, hours after being interviewed by investigators, authorities said Thursday. Advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy led authorities to identify 55-year-old Paul Hutchinson as the...
New blood tests could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease faster and more accurately, researchers reported Sunday – but some appear to work far better than others. It’s tricky to tell if memory problems are caused by Alzheimer’s. That requires confirming one of the disease’s hallmark signs — buildup of a sticky protein called beta-amyloid —...
