Psychiatry often espouses brain disease explanations for mental disorders. Psychiatry pursued brain disease models due to ...

A look back to January 2001, when one of the original All-New, All-Different X-Men gave their life for the sake of mutantkind ...

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.

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” has died after being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68. The cartoonist’s former wife, Shelly Miles, announced his death in a ...

Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the ongoing research and efforts at the FDA to find cures for rare diseases. Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear from ...

SCOTT COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — The cancer rates in Scott County, Virginia do not meet the definition of a cluster, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) announced Wednesday. VDH stated in a press ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday announced an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule that recommends fewer shots to all children. Under the change — effective ...

"They had already brought a chaplain in on the phone,” Scott Lee said The National Kidney Registry Scott Lee of Colorado received a life-saving kidney donation just before the holidays He has been ...

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease prevention or slowing, rather than recovery. Despite billions of dollars ...

This year marked a pivotal moment in the quest to treat Huntington’s disease, a rare but devastating form of dementia. Scientists found that an experimental gene therapy slowed the condition’s ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Amid an uptick of “Zombie deer disease” in Middle Tennessee, the state reports new confirmed cases in two more counties. “CWD is a progressive, fatal disease of the nervous ...

Reports that the Department of Health and Human Services may overhaul the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark’s have prompted a reasonable question: Why do American children receive ...