WHO estimates dementia deaths tripled since 2000 to 2.1 million, now the fifth leading cause of death. Here is what it means for U.S. families.

Two Oxford men face federal kratom derivative charges in an Ole Miss death probe. See what is alleged, what is unproven, and what families should know.

Florida's locally acquired dengue cases reached 252 through Sept. 26, the most for any state in decades. See affected counties, warning signs, and family steps.

Initial results of the NRG Oncology NRG-GI003 clinical study comparing proton and photon therapy for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) indicate that proton therapy did not improve the primary objective of overall survival (OS). At the planned interim analysis, the trial was released for reporting after it crossed the futility boundary. Proton therapy also did not improve the trial's secondary endpoints, including progression-free survival (PFS) and local progression (LP).

Inflammatory conditions in the brain, including traumatic brain injury and degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, could be targeted with an existing drug thanks to new research that shows it can work in brain cells.

The way digital technologies are currently built and governed creates real risks to health worldwide, alongside genuine benefits, according to a new three-paper series authored by 13 global experts and published in The Lancet. The authors call for coordinated governance of digital systems, with the health and online safety of children and young people made an immediate global policy priority.

Providing people with nutritious foods can improve the management of chronic metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension. However, most studies of "Food Is Medicine" programs have only looked at their short-term impacts—on the scale of weeks to months.

New research from two William & Mary students has found that the risk of heart attack could be significantly lowered with one simple dietary change: increasing the intake of pulses. But what is a pulse? A food group with diverse options, pulses are edible seeds from plants in the legume family. Some examples include dry beans, chickpeas, lentils and dry peas.

The angiopoietin-Tie signaling pathway has long been known to be essential for the maturation and maintenance of healthy blood vessels. It stabilizes the vessel wall and regulates vascular growth during development. At the same time, it plays an important role in inflammation, when blood vessels become activated and immune cells leave the bloodstream and enter the surrounding tissue. How the same signaling pathway can control such different biological functions has remained unclear.

For millions of people at risk of glaucoma, healthy eye pressure can mean the difference between preserving vision and losing it. Yet despite decades of research, scientists still do not fully understand what regulates daily changes in eye pressure or how those fluctuations may contribute to glaucoma. A series of three studies led by Christopher Passaglia, a University of South Florida professor and associate chair in the Department of Medical Engineering, is helping fill in those gaps.