Hospitals and Healthcare

In July 2022, Auckland teacher Robyn Pryor was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Joining “the worst club in the world” has seen Pryor face the realit

Using on-device machine learning, users can create a voice model that sounds like them, and use it to talk out loud or take part in calls.

Scientists are racing to find out what causes this progressive disease. And they're starting to make some headway.

Rates of the disease in Griffith, Wagga Wagga and Leeton are seven times the national average and researchers suspect a link to blue-green algae

Words are all we have when we talk about the lost of a loved one, and yet they completely fall short. Still, here is my story.

Bob Alderman, 70, lost his voice to motor neurone disease - until his son stepped in to help.

When his son was dying, he didn't think the facilities were adequate

Dr Justin Yerbury is a world expert in motor neurone disease, a disease that is also slowly killing him. To continue his search for a cure, he chose radical life-prolonging surgery with a hefty after-care cost, prompting the question — what price a life?

Hawking's life embodied what it means to have access to the human right of communication through communication technology.

Once a popular kids' TV host, Fiona MacDonald is on the trip of a lifetime. Since being diagnosed with motor neurone disease two years ago, she's driving around Australia to raise money for research, and have fun on the way.

Dan Doctoroff’s efforts to rebuild the city after 9/11 brought him power. A terrible diagnosis brought him peace.

When Justin and Rachel Yerbury met as teenagers, they had no idea that he would become a world-leading scientist – studying a disease that would cause his own tragic decline

A major study will assess if new - and existing - drugs can help people with motor neurone disease.

In an excerpt from his memoir, Eyes to the Wind, activist Ada Barkan describes how a protest he led against the Republican tax bill helped change his perspective on living with ALS.

The numbers of sporadic (ie non-genetic) cases of MND have increased by 250% in the past 25 years in Australia. New South Wales towns including Griffith, Wagga Wagga and Leeton in the Riverina have rates seven times the national average. Coffs Harbour, Tamworth and Port Macquarie are other hotspots for the disease.

Australian doctors are trialling a new drug they hope will help slow the progress of motor neurone disease, which is on the rise.