Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) causes an acute febrile disease characterized by severe arthralgia in the small joints. This arthralgia is highly debilitating and can be chronic. CHIKV circulates ...

Jan. 30—Nicole Herling was praying for brain disease. That's rarely happy news. But for her, it offered a potential answer to a haunting question: why, in less than a year, had her brother ...

Methods: We analyzed 161 brain autopsy cases from the Brain Arterial Remodeling Study. We dissected each of the components of the circle of Willis and stained all arterial segments with H&E, elastic ...

"This study suggests that the aging process directly impacts the risk of major age-related brain diseases, relatively independent of other risk factors. While the link between aging and stroke ...

in determining if you'll suffer future heart disease lies in the hair on your head - or at least, lack of it. Doctors believe that baldness could be a strong risk factor in future heart attacks ...

She died weeks after she underwent emergency brain surgery after a skiing accident in December. She was 52. “She was and always will be my best friend, the best mother to me, and someone who ...

Periodontitis may be a risk factor for brain damage, providing a potential treatment target for the early prevention of Alzheimer's disease, according to an American Academy of Periodontology press ...

bDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Malnati Brain Tumor Institute of the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA cDepartment ...

The charity was established in 1975 and supports people affected by kidney disease, as well as ensuring they improve their quality of life and don’t go through it alone. Fiona Loud, Policy ...

The confirmation comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) said last week that eight people had been killed by the disease in a remote part of Tanzania. The WHO chief Tedros Adhanom ...

It’s a complex yet efficient cleaning mechanism that works in every organ except the brain. “When cells are ... patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Hauglund speculates it could ...