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Quantitative Alzheimer's risk factors, including accelerated brain changes over time, were detectable in healthy individuals ...

Hydration is the mainstay of treatment for cholera. Depending on how severe the diarrhea is, treatment will consist of oral or intravenous solutions to replace lost fluids. Antibiotics ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

His guidance is clear: "There is no cure for black spots on roses. However, there are several things you can do to minimise the effects and avoid plants succumbing to it in the first place." ...

It's related to a disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Both disorders are universally fatal brain diseases caused by a prion. A prion is a protein particle that lacks DNA ...

Finding a platform that offers STD treatment online may seem hard to believe, but it’s available. We vetted and picked services that offer consultations, testing, and STD treatments, all online.

The apparently unexplainable cure of a paralysed sailor more than a century ago has been officially declared a miracle by church authorities. John "Jack" Traynor, from Liverpool, returned from the ...

A drug used to treat HIV that has also shown promise in preventing infections is not a cure for those already infected, as claimed in social media posts. Apart from rare and dangerous stem cell ...

Huji Xu’s team was on tenterhooks after delivering the first treatments. “We couldn’t sleep, because all these cases are very sick patients,” says Xu, a rheumatologist at the Naval Medical ...

There is currently no cure, but there are ways to support a person with medication and other strategies. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. It accounts for around 60% to 80 ...

Africa’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention — Africa CDC — says it is working to identify a new disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has claimed at least 79 lives and ...