Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The first proposed definition for disease modification in systemic lupus erythematosus, including lupus ...

Getting diagnosed with a chronic illness can be devastating. It can also be scary to realize that you’re dealing with a health issue that may never go away. The U.S. National Center for Health ...

Disease is often viewed in a binary way — you either have it or you don’t. Biology doesn’t work that way, of course. Years before a diagnosis, molecular changes are underway leading to the development ...

With more than 250 peer-reviewed papers published in several high-impact journals, Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD, has opened the ...

As you go through your day, you may not think about your heart, the organ central to your life as it pumps blood throughout your body. But that can change quickly if you experience a potentially ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford, have identified how rare populations of abnormal cells drive the formation and ...

Brain maps define diseases Researchers have identified well-delineated brain networks that are linked to five distinct neurodegenerative diseases, according to a paper published in Neuron today (April ...

An international coalition of brain researchers is suggesting a new way of looking at Alzheimer's. Instead of defining the disease through symptoms like memory problems or fuzzy thinking, the ...

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed. "Parkinson's ...

Some diseases are like black swans. They occur so rarely that many physicians never encounter them in their clinical practice, complicating efforts to treat them. How many rare diseases are there?

Just as fluid biomarkers for amyloidosis and tau have revolutionized clinical studies of Alzheimer’s disease, α-synuclein markers are poised to do the same for Parkinson’s. With the advent of ...