Articles by The Conversation
Stroke survivors often face substantial and long-lasting problems with their arms. Both arms often decline together: When one arm is more severely affected by the stroke, the other becomes more diffi�...
Cancer and Alzheimer's disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person.
For years, epidemiologists have noticed that people with cancer seem less lik�...
Cancer is transported from one organ to another by invisible bubbles. Understanding these microscopic messengers could change the fight against metastasis.
Preventing cancer from spreading throughou�...
People who don't eat meat may be less likely than meat eaters to reach the age of 100, according to a recent study. But before you reconsider your plant-based diet, there's more to these findings tha�...
Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold air, sleeping in a chilly room, getting caught in cold rain or snow, or s�...
Your fitness tracker might be telling you that you need 10,000 steps, 30 minutes of cardio or even an hour at the gym every day. But what if you could improve your health in just a few minutes a day?�...
Huntington's disease (HD) has long been impossible to cure, but new research is finally giving fresh hope.
HD is a progressive, hereditary brain disease that affects movement, cognition, and emotion�...
Stiff knees, aching hips, and the slow grind of chronic joint pain are often accepted as an unavoidable part of getting older.
But while osteoarthritis is the world's most common joint disease, expe�...
Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultra-processed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet and this shift leads to improvements across several key markers related to ho�...
A UK man who is thought to be Britain's youngest dementia sufferer recently passed away from the disease at only 24 years old. Andre Yarham, from Norfolk in England, was just 22 when he was first dia�...
