A new review shows how gut microbiota shifts in heart failure, with harmful bacteria and metabolites worsening disease

Treating chronic lower back pain with gabapentin, a popular opioid-alternative painkiller, increases risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

People Who Live to 100 Have a Unique Relationship with Disease

IU researchers classify kidney cell types that may lead to better disease treatment

A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease

How an Ultra-Rare Disease Accelerates Aging

Increased time on electronic devices or watching TV among children (10Y) and young adults (18Y) was associated with higher cardiometabolic disease risk, such as high blood pressure…

Men who lose their Y chromosome in part of their blood cells have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease - in particular a fatal heart attack

Political polarization in the U.S during COVID-19 was 12 times greater than in past disease outbreaks in terms of vaccine hesitancy

Early Locus Coeruleus noradrenergic axon loss drives olfactory dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease

Red meat wreaks havoc on gut and drives inflammatory bowel disease

Centenarians develop diseases more slowly than those who die earlier, with their disease burden leveling off around age 90

Study shows Lyme Disease can disrupt gut bacteria and immune response

Cats with dementia have brain changes similar to those of people with Alzheimer’s disease, offering a valuable model for studying the condition in humans

Researchers have discovered a critical link between the brain’s waste-clearing system and early neuron degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease

University of Michigan-led study finds that people with Alzheimer’s show higher “neural flexibility” — frequent reshuffling of brain networks at rest — and in healthy adults, this same pattern sometimes predicts who will later develop the disease

U-Michigan study finds most Americans prioritized preventing child abuse, domestic violence, and deaths linked to economic hardship over preventing additional COVID-19 deaths during lockdowns; researchers say these preferences highlight the need to balance disease prevention with other societal harm

A comprehensive review on environmental risk factors of cardiovascular disease show noise, climate change, chemical pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, and air pollution as risk factors for cardiovascular diseases

An arterial disease, recently discovered in cats of the Korat breed, resembles genetic familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a cholesterol disorder in humans

"Prolonged sitting" increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, possibly due to preceding impairments in cutaneous vascular function, regardless of ambient temperature

New Aging Clock Forecasts Dementia, Disease Risk from Single MRI Scan

New paper by UCSD scientist posits a general principle that healthy dietary factors can become unhealthy in people with cancer or heart disease

Cancer Drugs May Reverse Alzheimer’s Disease Effects

Adherence to plant based diets reduce the risk of hepatic fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

A new study found that in mice with Parkinson’s-like disease, breathing lower-oxygen air (like at high altitudes) protected brain cells and improved movement, even after symptoms began.

Measuring insulin levels in saliva offers a non-invasive way to measure metabolic health and can show risk of developing future health concerns, including Type 2 diabetes, obesity and heart disease, without the need for needles or lab-based blood work

Pessimistic Dogs Are Better at Smelling Cancer—And Other Keys to Disease-Sniffing Success

SpaceX just launched disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station

Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease

Bio Detection dogs successfully detect Parkinson’s disease by odour, study finds

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