Researchers have uncovered the molecular mechanisms behind cognitive deficits and brain fog associated with chemotherapy, and identified a current FDA-approved drug for multiple sclerosis that can help reduce chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairments.
A new study shows that music therapy interventions improve social interactions between people with dementia and their caregivers. The findings indicate that music therapy may also decrease caregiver distress.
Many drugs and medications can cause liver issues. Damage to the liver from prescription and over-the-counter drugs can be mild and reversible or severe and life-threatening.
According to a study, the main susceptibility gene for Alzheimer’s disease, <i>APOE4</i>, leads to molecular changes in the brain’s blood vessels, which are followed by changes in the synapses that connect brain cells.
Our bodies' nerve cells are important for transmitting electrical and chemical information between different parts of the brain and the nervous system.
More mosquitoes are testing positive for the West Nile virus, according to Durham Region's health department. The latest positive cases were collected from t
Three people have died and several others in Argentina have become sick after developing pneumonia with no clear cause, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Antibodies elicited by a triple homologous or heterologous vaccination regimen or following natural SARS-CoV-2 infection combined with a two-dose vaccine course, result in highest neutralization capacity against the Omicron variant BA.1.
The review of 5 phase 3 randomized controlled trials found that overall, the combination treatments improved survival outcomes while eliciting more, but manageable, side effects.
The FDA’s briefing docs are in ahead of its unusual second adcomm for Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ experimental ALS drug next week — and the agency's opinion is largely negative. While acknowledging that ALS treatments are “desperately needed” and providing an ext…
The monkeypox vaccine is now available to a wider swath of people in Allegheny County as health officials work to get the prophylaxis to those most at risk of coming into contact with the virus. In addition to those already eligible for the vaccine, which can…
Exercise is about so much more than weight loss, but in a world where obesity is so strongly associated with poor health, it's hard not to make shedding pounds the primary goal.
Three people have died and several others in Argentina have become sick after developing pneumonia from an unexplained cause, the World Health Organization told CNN on Friday.