The immune cells that protect the brain can also destroy it. In Alzheimer’s disease, microglia, the brain’s resident defenders, lock into a state of chronic activation around amyloid plaques, pumping ...

Many people living with dementia never receive an accurate diagnosis, in part because Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and related conditions are notoriously difficult to tell apart and often ...

A 12-year-old boy drowned on May 27 during a rafting excursion on a school field trip in the Poconos Mountain region of Pennsylvania, officials said.

Peoria County's forensic pathologist is the county's highest paid employee. But, her salary actually saves taxpayers money, officials say.

A new brain imaging test can detect a key hallmark of Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear and earlier than the method currently used in clinical practice in the United States and Europe, report ...

Born in Memphis, TN, Reisa Sperling grew up in Bethlehem, PA, USA. She left there aged 17 years to become an actress in New York City, an adventure that lasted for nearly a decade, until she decided ...

The Life Sciences and Diagnostics Markets Group brought in revenue of $732 million compared to $654 million a year ago.

Child psychiatry was not built to protect children of color. Understanding its racist origins is essential before parents of ...

Kate and Carson Hagan thought they were using a wedding gift card for a sushi date night until the bill arrived and they ...

Alzheimer’s doesn’t begin with memory loss. It starts decades earlier. New research reveals that a simple trace mineral may ...

Figuring out how advanced a patient’s Alzheimer’s disease has become could be made much easier with this method.