Category: 6. Health

Stronger muscles might be able to ward off some of the organ damage associated with obesity.

People with excess body fat who also had stronger handgrip strength were less likely to develop obesity-related heart, liver or kidney damage,…

Children with LIS1 – Lissencephaly are born with a brain in which the typical furrows and convolutions are severely reduced or completely absent. This rare genetic disorder leads to severe developmental disorders, epileptic seizures and a…

Among preterm newborns, greater exposure to the mother’s voice after birth appeared to speed up the maturation of a key language-related brain circuit, in a small clinical trial conducted by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Burke…

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, approximately one-third of maternal mortality in the US was due to cardiovascular causes…

This interactive tool from the ALS Association provides researchers, clinicians, and advocates with real-world data to drive improvements in research, care, and policy.

A research team from the Medical University of Vienna and the Medical University of Graz has discovered a previously unknown genetic cause of hereditary optic atrophy, a degenerative disease of the optic nerve associated with…