Most infection prevention guidelines center on the hospital environment rather than the patient. But the source of antibiotic-resistant microbes is often from the patient’s own body.

Including the family in a patient’s treatment plan can help shorten hospital stays and assist in recovery. But caregivers often pay a price.

Researchers have uncovered a potential method for interrupting the misfolding of tau protein that underlies neurodegenerative disease.

Specialized care can help you survive a heart attack or stroke. But a primary care doctor can help prevent those problems in the first place.

Cambridge researchers are helping lead countrywide trials to identify accurate and quick blood tests that can diagnose dementia, in a bid to improve the UK’s

Vaccination not only reduces the severity of TB in infected cattle, but reduces its spread in dairy herds by 89%, research finds.

Human brains are getting bigger. Researchers hypothesize that might be good news for dementia risk.

Single-cell gene expression patterns in the brain, and evidence from follow-up experiments, reveal many shared cellular and molecular similarities that could be targeted for potential treatment.

On this episode of the Big Brains podcast, neurobiologist Karl Herrup argues we need to go back to the drawing board on Alzheimer's disease.