The new report examined numbers from 2023, the latest year for which data were available. Deaths from cardiovascular diseases totaled 916,000, including about 680,000 deaths from heart disease and 180 ...

The involvement of glial cells in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been mostly viewed as a secondary adaptive response to ...

Huntington's disease is caused by an inherited genetic change that causes production of an altered protein. This leads to nerve damage in areas of the brain that control movement and thinking.

Using a new computational approach they developed to analyze large genetic datasets from rare disease cohorts, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and colleagues have discovered ...

In a recent study published in the journal The Lancet Public Health, researchers examined the differences in the leading causes of disease burden between males and females. Evidence shows that females ...

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From heart disease, respiratory illness, infections, diabetes, to cancer, here are the top 5 most dangerous diseases that are ...

An old adage physicians are taught is that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think of “horses,” not “zebras.” Instead of an unusual explanation for the symptoms, it’s preferable to consider more ...