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Medicines containing a type of PFAS or "forever chemical" called fluorine are not leading to higher numbers of adverse drug reactions, according to new data analysis.

Researchers have identified a neurochemical signature that sets Parkinson's disease apart from essential tremor—two of the most common movement disorders, but each linked to distinct changes in the brain.

People with learning disabilities progress faster to severe type 2 diabetes and are at greater risk of dying from their condition than people without these disabilities, suggests research published in the journal BMJ Open ...

Replacing time spent watching TV with other activities can help prevent depressive disorder in middle-aged adults, revealed a new study in European Psychiatry, published on behalf of the European Psychiatric Association by ...

Researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center have discovered a potentially powerful weapon in the fight against head and neck cancers. The new drug, still in preclinical studies, attacks cancer cells from within by damaging ...

Researchers at Tsukuba University in Japan report that memories acquired while awake are stored in a more permanent form (called memory consolidation) during the REM stage of sleep, and that this process requires the reactivation ...

Knee crepitus, the sound of cracking or grinding in the knee joint, is very common across all age groups.

A new study from the University of Sydney has revealed how type 2 diabetes directly alters the heart's structure and energy systems, offering vital insights into why people with diabetes are at greater risk of heart failure.

Dementia researchers have called for updates to the diagnostic criteria for one of the most common younger-onset forms of the disease, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), a condition similar to the one actor ...

After coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), evolocumab did not reduce saphenous vein graft disease rates at two years compared with placebo, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line session presented ...

A team of Hong Kong researchers has found that binge gaming correlates with poorer social, academic, and mental health outcomes in schoolchildren, with distinct patterns by gender.

The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the encoding and retrieval of memories, learning, decision-making and the regulation of emotional states. ...