The sticky proteins amyloid-beta and tau are hallmark features of Alzheimer's disease, but they're not the only contributors to the condition. Another factor implicated in cognitive decline is the c�...
The true scale of osteoporosis is difficult to fathom. The progressive bone-weakening disease is estimated to affect as many as 500 million people worldwide, triggering up to 37 million fragility fr�...
A powerful advance in cancer-fighting medicine has achieved an extraordinary new milestone. Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is an immunotherapy technique that involves taking a patien�...
We usually think of Alzheimer's as a brain disease, but a growing body of evidence shows it's more complicated than that. Indeed, some of the damage caused by the condition appears to emerge not fro�...
Among mere mortals, a select few have an incredible gift for longevity it's something we only see in about 0.01 percent of the world's population. They're called centenarians people who live to 100 �...
It's the most common cause of childhood physical disability, affecting as many as three children out of every 1,000 babies born around the world each year. But despite the prevalence of cerebral pal�...
A common drug that's been used to treat patients since the 1950s may hold transformative potential for human health, researchers say. In a new review, scientists go as far as calling it a potential �...
There are numerous kinds of diets that can help you to lose weight if you're overweight or obese, and if all you want to do is shed some pounds, you have options. We also know that certain kinds of �...
Alzheimer's has long been recognized as a sporadic condition influenced by factors such as age, genetics, and lifestyle but scientists don't think that's the only way the disease emerges. In recent �...
For anybody with a loved one experiencing dementia or Alzheimer's, news of prospective drug treatments failing or producing mixed results is a cause for concern. But emerging evidence gives reasons �...