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A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis says a synthetic molecule can reverse neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, by inhibiting the production of tau protein tangles.

Scientists from the Washington University School of Medicine have found a way to reverse Alzheimer symptoms in mice. The findings have been published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Six-year-old girls are less likely than boys to believe their gender is poised for brilliance, and they instead tend to veer away from activities that require those smarts. These are some findings of a new study that pro...

Researchers have identified the brain hormone responsible for triggering the gut's fat-burning process. Their findings open up new health possibilities as scientists now have another drug target to consider in an effort ...

A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Biology looked into the gene expression of recently deceased animals and found that some cells are still active up to 96 hours postmortem.

According to a survey, most physicians don't support repealing the Affordable Care Act in its entirety. However, many of them would improve the health policy.

Nearly 50 million Americans live with one or more of 80 recognized autoimmune disorders, conditions in which the body's immune system attacks healthy cells or tissues. Though widespread, the search for treatments for the...

Findings from new research offered insight into how the brain prrocesses meaning when people use drugs like LSD. According to the study, specific receptors and neuro-chemicals in the brain are responsible for such change...

A new study published in Obesity has found that fat shaming increases the risk of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in people with obesity, above and beyond the effects of body mass index and depression.

Latest findings from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study suggest that more than one in four adults and almost one in every four teenagers use tobacco.

(ECCO-the European CanCer Organisation) Clinical trials of a new immunotherapy, pembrolizumab, have shown that it prolongs life significantly for patients with bladder cancer and is active against a rare sub-type of mela...

(ECCO-the European CanCer Organisation) Cancer patients need speedy access to new drugs and fair prices for old ones, but in many cases they are getting neither, according to studies presented at ECC2017 by researchers f...

(ECCO-the European CanCer Organisation) By 2050 the death rates from malignant melanoma will have decreased from their current levels but the numbers of people dying from the disease will have increased due to the aging ...

Through magnetic resonance imaging and an advanced segmentation approach, researchers discovered decreased volumes of subfields of the hippocampus in subjects with bipolar disorder. The hippocampus controls our memories ...

New Jersey is now the first U.S. state to launch a universal baby box program. How can the program help reduce infant mortality rate?