New UC Davis research links sense of purpose to lower dementia risk. Adults with strong purpose in life were 28% less likely to develop cognitive decline. Findings suggest purpose may protect the ...

A staggering 28 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol, meaning they have too many lipids (fats) in their blood. That number, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At four Mayo Clinic health system sites, 7.6% of thyroid ultrasounds were considered inappropriate. Adults with ...

There’s a wide assortment of activities, foods and practices that promise to improve cognition. Fortunately, most of them are simple and easy to remember. Among the illnesses linked to cognitive ...

KNOXVILLE -- Around 600 Tennessee Valley Authority employees have volunteered to retire or resign and take a buyout from the federal utility in its effort to cut nearly $1 billion of planned spending.

Here's what to know and what this means for Alzheimer's research. Alzheimer’s disease sparks a cascade of changes throughout the body that lead to a slew of debilitating symptoms. But there’s one ...

Magda Osman receives funding from ESRC, EPSRC, Research England, UKRI Innovate UK, Wellcome Trust, Turing Institute, Food Standards Agency, DFG, British Academy, DSTL, Counterterrorism Policing. Of ...

Simply giving money to poor families at certain times reduced deaths among young children by nearly half, a new study found. By Apoorva Mandavilli Of every 1,000 children born in Kenya, 32 don’t make ...

Conroe’s building moratorium will end Friday after the agenda item to extend it died for lack of a motion Thursday. However, the state did approve a reduction in the number of gallons per minute water ...

Is your wallet getting as thin as your hair thanks to pricey pills and potions promising to save your strands? You’re not alone. In the US, more than 80% of men and nearly half of women will face ...