A free database of biomarker information on neurodegenerative diseases was released with backing from Bill Gates, Johnson & ...

Brain maps define diseases Researchers have identified well-delineated brain networks that are linked to five distinct neurodegenerative diseases, according to a paper published in Neuron today (April ...

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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have used machine learning to define three subtypes of Parkinson's disease based on the ...

In declaring a disease without nailing down what the disease is, the medical community left obesity open to debate among doctors, insurers and everyday people.

Obesity is linked to many common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease and knee osteoarthritis.

The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have established a consensus on what it means for a disease to spread through the air, officials said.

A Lancet commission is also working to define obesity as a disease with detailed descriptions of how the condition affects body systems.

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed ...

What is ataxia? As a stand-alone condition, "ataxia is a degenerative disease of the nervous system," explains Andrew Rosen, chief executive officer of the National Ataxia Foundation.

Joe Lakhman was just 1 year old when doctors determined his physical fate. They had diagnosed him with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neurodegenerative disease that affects one in 6,000 ...