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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — An upcoming document will entirely reframe obesity as a “condition of excess adiposity” that constitutes a disease called “clinical obesity” when related tissue and organ ...

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed. "Parkinson's ...

The World Health Organization has defined a new set of criteria for infectious diseases spread through the air following significant controversy and confusion during the pandemic about how the ...

Rare Disease Day is observed on February 29, to raise awareness and advocate for access to better information and treatments ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by accumulation of beta-amyloid in extracellular plaques and tau protein in intracellular neurofibrillary tangles ...