New research from Duke University highlights the role of neuropods, specialized sensory cells in the colon that act like ...

Heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne died this week at 76, about five years after announcing he had Parkinson's disease.

Dr. Anna-Kathryn Burch, a pediatric infectious disease physician in South Carolina, said infections with the Naegleria fowleri amoeba are "very devastating." ...

A young person in South Carolina has died after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba at Lake Murray in the Columbia area.

The case was initially confirmed the week of July 7, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.

A groundbreaking brain imaging study from Wake Forest University School of Medicine confirms a vital step toward new ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered a gene that is critical to the brain’s ability to form ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the human ...

“All of a sudden, she could not read or write,” says her father, Ken Mok, Los Angeles-based writer, director, and founder of ...

The person in South Carolina contracted the infection from he Naegleria fowleri amoeba, commonly known as a brain-eating amoeba, after swimming in Lake Murray outside of Columbia, the state ...

In this edition of The People’s Pharmacy, Joe and Teresa Graedon also hear from a reader wondering if beets can help reduce high blood pressure.

More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person's brain and nervous system as technology improves ...