While many people believe that autism is a form of neurodivergence that largely affects children, more and more adults are ...

Hepatitis doesn’t always announce itself. While hepatitis A often comes on abruptly, as with a bad stomach bug, most cases of ...

Parenting is tough. From the everyday things like getting them out of bed and off to school, to watching for learning milestones and identifying their skills. Now a parenting expert has shared five ...

The most common prodromal symptom of Parkinson disease among community-dwelling older adults was cognitive deficit, followed by subthreshold parkinsonism, urinary dysfunction, and olfactory ...

The signs were there but subtle. Dustin Chandler never did his homework. He was labeled lazy at school. It wasn’t until years later when his mother, now working at a pediatric clinic, watched him ...

CHICAGO -- Health officials in the mid-Atlantic region have recently reported a rise in hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD. There were 197 emergency department visits related to the disease in ...

Death rates from falls among older adults have surged in the last 20 years, as the American population ages and more seniors prefer to live independently in their homes. New data from the Centers for ...

Even when blood pressure is well controlled, older adults whose blood pressure fluctuates widely from one heartbeat to the next may be at greater risk for brain shrinkage and nerve cell injury, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Bathrooms in Rhode Island will soon be more accessible for people with disabilities and their caretakers. Gov. Dan McKee signed a bill into law on Tuesday, requiring all ...