In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers in Canada have found that retinal scans — images of the eye’s tiny blood vessels — ...

The study aimed to find out whether sex differences in healthy brain ageing explain why women are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s ...

She highlights some significant overlap with Alzheimer's disease, and she says her team's novel microscopy method sheds light on how microplastics that have seeped into the body could be triggering or ...

According to new research, air pollution damages brain health throughout life and is responsible for 29% of fatalities from ...

Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the ...

The shingles vaccine does more than just protect middle-aged folks and seniors against maddening rashes, a new study says.

Dongfeng Gu and colleagues review community based cohort studies in China, finding strategies to improve the quality and scale of these studies in China and beyond Community based cohort studies ...

It’s one of the only universal facts of life: everybody dies. That’s where palliative care, which aims to improve patients’ ...