Evidence suggests reactivations of the varicella-zoster virus may accelerate aging and raise dementia risk. Now scientists want to know if vaccines and antivirals could help protect the brain.

The first patient I met as a medical student was a middle-aged delivery man and a former track athlete. He was recovering ...

Dr. Zoghbi is a Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Neuroscience, and Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Director of Texas ...

When Janet Shipton sat down to write a holiday postcard to her aunt, the then 47-year-old didn’t imagine for a second that it would reveal the first symptom of early onset Parkinson’s disease. “I was ...

Chamomile tea? Coffee? Magnesium-infused drinks marketed as sleep aids? Here’s what the research says about whether these drinks can actually help you sleep.

In an initiative that has been running since 2014, Health City is invested in training Caymanians to work in healthcare and ...

A pilot randomized trial of older adults with mild cognitive impairment given either daily low-dose lithium carbonate or placebo for 2 years met its feasibility target, according to results published ...

A new clinical delivery model offers resources to help health care providers, or HCPs, become more culturally competent and improve health outcomes for their Black patients, an expert said. The risk ...

Author Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, discusses how intuition comes into practice. Your gut knows things before your brain catches ...

You described the microbiome as more than just bacteria. What are the other components of this "theatre of activity," and why is their inclusion sometimes considered controversial? Harris: Yeah. So it ...

Mark Carney’s Reith 2020 Lectures chart how we have come to esteem financial value over human value and how we have gone from market economies to market societies. He argues that this has contributed ...

Well, for one thing, one study showed that if you take ballroom dance classes and continue for a year, parts of the brain that are important for coordination and planning increase and the size of the ...