Understanding primary progressive aphasia
When you think about progressive brain disorders that cause dementia, you usually think of memory ...
Genetic risk scores developed for six diseases
A team of researchers has developed a genetic risk score for six common diseases, which ...
Infertility history linked with increased risk of heart failure
A new study finds that women who had experienced infertility had a 16 percent increased ...
In Alzheimer’s, DNA errors stress cells, create dysfunction
Inside brain cells, errors in DNA can accumulate as we age. But in patients with ...
It may be increasingly legal but doesn’t mean cannabis is safe
A recent CBS News/YouGov survey found that two-thirds of Americans want recreational marijuana use to ...
Early snapshot of pandemic’s impact on children’s mental health
Home from school and separated from peers during crucial developmental phases, young children and adolescents ...
Lessons from a pandemic
The initial surge of COVID-19 patients in Boston-area hospitals has passed, but the memories of ...
How to understand COVID-19-related loss of smell
Temporary loss of smell, or anosmia, is the main neurological symptom and one of the ...
Vaccines may arrive in record time, but the virus has been faster
Scientists have created candidate vaccines, which eventually could protect billions of people from COVID-19, with ...
Single-shot COVID-19 vaccine proves successful with primates
A single-shot vaccine for COVID-19 being developed by a group of scientists, led by Beth ...