Alzheimer’s doesn’t happen suddenly, but scientists are still struggling to find the best ways of capturing the first signs …
Johns Hopkins
Saving Maternal Lives — With a Magic Marker
Giving birth is never entirely safe or even remotely easy — especially in the developing world, where prenatal care may be nonexistent, postnatal care little better and access to hospitals or midwives is unreliable. That’s why …
Study: This Is Your Brain On Improv
Dr. Charles Limb has spent more than 10 years studying the brain activity of musicians as they improvise.
More Obesity Fallout: Nearly 50 Million Americans with Arthritis
More than one-fifth of American adults — that’s 49.9 million people — are clinically diagnosed with arthritis and, of those, 20 million say they are physically limited by the condition, according to new government figures. …
Study: Can We Tell Our Genes to Make Us Fat?
The fight against obesity has engaged many fields of medicine: genetics to predict it; nutrition to prevent it; surgery to manage it; and endocrinology to deal with one of its biggest side effects, diabetes.