Optical measurements through the skin are challenging because they usually represent averages across the various layers of skin that are illuminated. A study in Nature Metabolism uses a depth ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD ... (along with the activation of the blood clotting system) start limiting blood flow to the heart muscle. The disease is the most common cause of sudden death ...

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Diseases of the ... of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord or cranial nerves) or peripheral nervous system. During the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD), α-synuclein pathology ...

Credit: SciTechDaily.com A novel wireless photothermal DBS nanosystem uses nanoparticles to target and restore damaged neurons in Parkinson’s disease ... of PD and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Huntington's disease, a fatal hereditary brain disorder, is linked to a genetic mutation that remains harmless for decades before expanding and producing toxic proteins that kill brain cells.

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Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the ...

Efforts are being made throughout the NHS to reduce the number of amputations performed due to peripheral artery disease. The vascular surgery unit in Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, aimed to ...

In addition to Parkinson's disease, the national plan will also target other neurodegenerative Parkinsonisms, including multiple system atrophy ... a movement disorders specialist who treats ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the ...

(McLean Hospital’s Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center/NIH NeuroBioBank via AP) Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary ...