Neuroscience researchers at Wayne State University published a review article that confirms the usefulness of neurofilament light (NfL) blood levels to predict the likelihood and rate of progression of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. The review article, “The Potential of Blood…

Researchers have identified common and rare gene mutations that increase risk for schizophrenia. Yet it’s unclear what biological mechanisms go awry in the brain to cause psychosis and other disabling symptoms, due in part to a lack of valid animal…

Stoptober: Celebrities back giving up smoking campaign A collaboration between the universities of Southampton, UK, and Bergen, Norway, put forward the eye-opening hypothesis. Dr Negusse Kitaba, a research fellow at the University of Southampton, said “stem cells are being established”…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Vanessa Bryant and her two youngest daughters Bianka Bryant and Capri Bryant are the sweetest (and most fashionable) cheerleaders…

But cash-strapped councils and local clinical commissioning groups are making funding assessments tougher with many chronically ill pensioners now paying for care. The number ­eligible for Con­tinual Healthcare (CHC) has fallen 32 percent from 15,963 in 2018-19 to 10,847 in…

People who have had a stroke called an intracerebral hemorrhage who take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may have a lower risk of having another stroke, especially ischemic stroke, compared to people who also had an intracerebral hemorrhage but were not…

A new study estimates that snakebites resulted in the loss of 3,000 productive days of work and school in the Mopeia district, causing a median financial setback of 17 USD for each affected household. This is almost five times the…

First-time fathers seem to experience a steeper decline in relationship satisfaction in the first two years postpartum than second-time fathers, who appear to recover lost relationship satisfaction by the time their second child is 14 months old, according to a…

Traditional medicines are part of the cultural heritage of many Africans. About 80% of the African continent’s population use these medicines for health care. Other reasons include affordability, accessibility, patient dissatisfaction with conventional medicine, and the common misconception that “natural”…

Dr. Berne’s Whole Health Products voluntarily recalled more eyedrops during an ongoing FDA recall of one of its eyedrops solutions, the FDA announced today. The initial FDA recall was prompted by bacterial and fungal contamination of one Dr. Berne’s eyedrops…