With early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease comes the possibility of treatment to not only help manage symptoms but also slow progression to a more advanced stage. Your doctor may prescribe a type of ...

Crohn’s disease. Ulcerative colitis. You may have heard these names during the commercial breaks of your favorite show. If so, you’ve heard of the most common forms of a group of medical conditions ...

Across the world, more than 1.5 billion people suffer from chronic liver disease. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

How can you help a young child understand Alzheimer’s disease? Just as Alzheimer's disease is unique in each affected individual, so is a child when it comes to discussions about the illness. What you ...

For decades, medical understanding of Parkinson’s disease focused exclusively on the brain, specifically the death of dopamine-producing neurons that control movement. This narrow view shaped ...

Beta-amyloid plaques are considered a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, but they’re not the sole cause of the disease and its symptoms. Alzheimer’s is a complicated disease that experts are still ...

New research links EPG5 gene errors to childhood brain disease and Parkinson's, revealing insights for therapy development.

People often compare the genome to a computer's program, with the cell using its genetic code to process environmental inputs ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday introduced the Rare Disease Evidence Principles (RDEP) to provide greater speed and predictability in the review of therapies intended to treat rare ...

The story of a once mysterious and until-recently fatal feline disease called feline infectious peritonitis has enough twists and tuns to be a Netflix movie. A treatment for the now-treatable ...

Ecosystem restoration projects aim to restore biodiversity and associated compromised ecosystem services. Evidence is ...