New research suggests that specific changes in blood composition may help protect the brain and reduce the risk of developing ...

Scientists have identified a protein tied to Alzheimer’s that enables lung cancer to spread to the brain, paving the way for ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common, debilitating neurodegenerative disease affecting about 10 percent of people over the age of 65 and one third of people aged 85 and above. Besides environmental ...

After witnessing my mum's cognitive decline and with dementia now the leading cause of death for Australian women, I can't ...

Martin Frizell has become Fiona's primary carer since the former GMTV presenter's early-onset Alzheimer's diagnosis ...

Martin Frizell, who has been married to Fiona Phillips for 28 years, explained his thinking around his "brutally honest" ...

It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked, and which are essential workers that should be nurtured. One ...

The opportunities I had as an aspiring researcher are gone. The path to a better life for kids in Sacramento is slipping away ...

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas ...

A targeted drug therapy has shown potential to reverse cellular damage in Parkinson's disease by regenerating critical brain ...

Perhaps you remember Van Dyke, who hopes to turn 100 on Dec. 13. He starred in the CBS sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (1961-66) and in movie musicals “Bye Bye Birdie” (1963), “Mary Poppins” (1964) ...