Multiple sclerosis is notorious for doing damage to the brain's ability to communicate with the rest of the body. But what creates the decline in mental clarity that some patients experience?

An AIDS vaccine has long been a holy grail for medical researchers. New experiments in monkeys are giving hope that a vaccine for humans is getting closer to reality.

Parkinson's disease has many possible symptoms.  Researchers have found some groups of Parkinson's patients more often than others have negative outcomes.

Cancer is visualized using all sorts of imaging technologies. It can be felt by patients themselves. Even dogs are known to sniff out cancer. Now, scientists are developing yet another way to detect cancer - before it develops into tumors.

If you feel like you're coming down with something like flu, what source of information do you turn to first? For many people, the answer is Google.

Blood thinner dabigatran ( Pradaxa ), approved in 2010 to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, a common heart arrhythmia, is linked to an increased risk of heart attack, a new trial suggests.

Cholesterol-reducing drugs have been shown to be quite effective in helping treat other disorders. Unfortunately, it may increase the risk of developing interstitial lung disease ( ILD ).

Asthma and inflammation may seem like an obvious relationship, but that's not the case. New research suggests that the majority of patients with mild-to-moderate asthma may not respond to anti-inflammatory treatments.

The standard lab test to spot acute kidney injury can take days. A new biomarker test provides diagnosis in only a half hour--a turnaround time that may help save lives.

Multicentric carcinogenesis is the technical term for the formation of multiple cancerous tumors. This phenomenon can occur in lung cancer. Researchers have recently uncovered important genetic information about this process.