More Americans than ever are turning to spiritual, meditative and religious retreats as a way to reset their daily life...

The natural molecule, n-acetylcysteine (NAC), with strong antioxidant effects, shows potential benefit as part of the management for patients with...

Research is finally beginning to shed light on some of the reasons that extra weight is difficult to shed permanently....

Although a number of treatments exist to alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, to date, none reliably slow the progression...

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Most of us need seven to eight hours of sleep a night to function well, but some people seem to...

Open the medicine cabinet of a senior and you’re likely to find scores of pill bottles. Physicians are often unaware...

Researchers look to understand the causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in the hope of finding new ways to treat...

Muscle weakness is a common symptom of both long-time alcoholics and patients with mitochondrial disease. Now researchers have found a...

In one of the first randomized control trials studying an intervention for sensory problems in children with autism, researchers found...

Treating Parkinson's disease patients with the experimental drug GM1 ganglioside improved symptoms and slowed their progression during a two and...

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil analyzed the cerebral blood flow (CBF) of...

Patients of doctors who are more empathic have better outcomes and fewer complications, concludes a large, empirical study by a...