A key axiom of fiscally responsible budgeting is that it usually costs far less to ward off devastation from a crisis or disaster than to clean up devastation after it has occurred. And once one takes ...

Kidney function tests in the normal range can still signal risk if low for age and sex A Swedish study analyzed over 1.1 million adults using age- and sex-specific eGFR charts Adults below the 25th ...

Supriya Chakraborty might have been studying insects in a lab had it not been for an immunology college instructor in India who taught him about the superheroes inside him—immune cells that wage a ...

That foggy, disconnected feeling after a bad night’s sleep may be your brain doing something unexpected. New research shows that when you’re sleep-deprived, brief lapses in attention are linked to ...

Professor of Paediatric Neurology and Development, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and the Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town Lucinda Tsunga received funding from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT study reveals how sleep deprivation causes your brain to flush itself clean while you’re awake, disrupting focus and ...

Findings from Mass General Brigham investigators highlight the intricate interplay of diverse physiological processes as the brain shifts from wakefulness to sleep. A new study by investigators from ...

Idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus is a neurologic disorder characterized by impaired gait, balance, cognition, and bladder control in older adults. The disorder is treated with shunt surgery, ...

Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is a sustained illness (6-months or more) where the patient has persistent fatigue with worsening symptoms after activity. A few symptoms ...

Receiving a diagnosis like dementia doesn’t happen overnight, but the amount of time it takes to learn what’s really going on has always been a little hazy. Now, new research has pinpointed how long ...

Proteomic analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has the potential to provide insight into the pathophysiology of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) and target trials to improve outcome. The aim ...