In a 2024 dementia report published in The Lancet journal by researchers who are part of The Lancet Commission, two new ...

In 2024 Stephen Rich and his colleagues published a study in which they assessed the genetic risk of developing type 1 ...

The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, also moved the needle. Scientists had successfully ...

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President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have tied Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism ...

The discovery addresses a longstanding puzzle in cognitive epidemiology: while studies have consistently shown that children who score higher on intelligence tests tend to live longer, the underlying ...