Category: Health

Doctors and identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken explore the ideas shaping our health and wellbeing.

This is a MedPage Today story. A German physician who was arrested last summer on suspicion of killing four patients is now suspected of killing

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) accounts for 60–80% of global dementia cases, with its core pathological feature being the misfolding and aggregation of β-amyloid (Aβ) proteins in

Two University of Virginia researchers helped develop new NATO guidelines for protecting soldiers’ brains from blast exposures common in military combat and training.

Brain cells that produce the protective coating around nerve fibers can become dysfunctional with age and may actively contribute to cognitive decline, according to new

Loneliness can reprogram the brain in ways that push alcohol consumption, reports a new preclinical study led by Northwestern University and the Salk Institute for

In a study recently published in Nature Communications, researchers from Berlin, Potsdam, and Jena present a new method for analyzing the epigenome, the genome’s control

Nearly four million women in England can order a self-testing kits to check for high-risk HPV.

A nationwide Japanese survey found that only 53.1% of respondents said they would accept vaccination in a hypothetical future pandemic with COVID-19-like fatality, despite substantially

A randomized, double-blind trial found that adults with mild constipation who drank a vinegar beverage daily for four weeks had more frequent bowel movements than

On the surface, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) might seem like unrelated diseases.

During typical aging and Alzheimer’s disease progression, higher levels of a protein called tau are associated with more depressive symptoms.

A powerful new research tool from a University of Virginia School of Medicine scientist and colleagues is set to advance our understanding of how genetics

A short workout or a nap can help protect memory after a sleepless night, a McGill University-led study has found.