11-year-old boy dies from rabies after waking up to bat on his face. Roughly two weeks after an 11-year-old boy in Canada woke up to find a bat resting on his face, he died from rabies, according to a newly published medical case report. The unidentified boy was staying with fami
Cases of Cyclosporiasis confirmed in Monroe County -- here’s what to know. # Michigan health officials warn of ‘large and growing outbreak’ of cyclosporiasis. **MONROE COUNTY, Mich.** – Over the past nine days, a cluster of cyclosporiasis cases in Monroe County has grown into mor
Researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging have uncovered evidence that a single genetic variant may influence the risk of two of the diseases people fear most—dementia and cancer—but in opposite ways. The findings, recen... [4923 chars]
Cognitive decline in very old adults has been considered for decades to be an almost inevitable consequence of aging. In clinical practice, this has contributed to many memory problems in patients over age 80 being interpreted as a natural part of ag... [9842 chars]
