Distinguishing early forms of cognitive impairment from normal aging can be a difficult diagnostic puzzle. Most primary care ...

Rare diseases reveal that our sense of identity rests on fragile biological infrastructure, much of it operating outside ...

Whistleblowers told the House Ways and Means Committee that a New Jersey organ procurement organization tried to remove organs from a live patient.

The ability of these devices to access aspects of a person’s innermost life, including preconscious thought, raises the ...

Throughout the history of sports, plenty of substances once thought to be innocuous that out not to be. Will smelling salts ...

Kavita Nair, PhD, FAAN, discusses academic medical centers' unique role in diagnosing and managing neurodegenerative diseases ...

Humans know they exist, but how does "knowing" work? Despite all that's been learned about brain function and the bodily ...

A neuropsychologist who researches Alzheimer’s disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai shares the warning signs she'd look for in her own life.

In 1982 a balding, bearded guy named Francis Battista drove through a canyon outside of Kanab, Utah, in a battered blue ...

Ms. Bakare, 44, has worked inside battery recycling factories for years, cleaning toilets and sinks. Her test showed she had ...

Q: I’m only 45, but my doctor says that I need to focus on my heart health — make sure my cholesterol level remains healthy ...