Adam Darcy of Acadia Foot & Ankle, operated on Randy Hicks’ right leg instead of his left leg where he had a partial Achilles ...

I heard Wayne had to give up driving because he is blind from glaucoma, but I saw him at the cafe reading a newspaper. I’m struggling to make sense of that: what is glaucoma?” ...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, received widespread awareness in the summer of 2014 thanks to an Ice Bucket Challenge. Millions of people participated in the challenge, drenching themselves in ...

Diabetic retinopathy, caused by high blood sugar, is a leading cause of vision loss globally, affecting millions including 65 ...

Parkinson’s disease is a long-term brain disorder that slowly damages nerve cells involved in movement. It affects millions of people around the world and becomes more common with age. The disease is ...

Lee J. Martin, Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses neonatal encephalopathy and his recent research into neonatal brain injury ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) received widespread attention in the summer of 2014 thanks to the Ice Bucket Challenge. Millions of people participated, drenching themselves in ice-cold water to ...

Millions of people live with chronic nerve pain every day. Unlike the pain from a cut or a broken bone, nerve pain can ...

Over the past decade, researchers at WashU Medicine have established that a molecule called SARM1 is a central trigger in the ...

Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide still legally applied to strawberries, apples, citrus, soybeans, and wheat in most US states, more ...

A new study suggests a common brain protein may be enabling Alzheimer’s to spread between neurons through microscopic ...

A common brain protein may be giving Alzheimer’s disease an unexpected way to spread, carrying toxic Tau proteins from ...