Neurological disorders affect 1 billion people: WHO
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Neurological disorders ranging from migraines to epilepsy and dementia affect up to 1 billion people worldwide and the toll will rise as populations age, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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One billion people in tropical countries are still suffering from debilitating and disfiguring diseases associated with poverty, but many remain untreated due to official neglect, health officials said on Wednesday.
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Autism is more common in the United  States than anyone had estimated, affecting about one in every  150 children, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention reported on Thursday.
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MODERN lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on the health of urban city dwellers in China. A study by the Chinese Red Cross of 16 Chinese cities, each with more than 1 million people, found that 75 per cent of
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The United Nations Children&#39;s Fund released its annual report that showed that at least one billion children, half of the world&#39;s population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS.
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THE brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is rare, and the risk of person-to-person infection is even rarer. But 1056 people who have had neurosurgery over the past 18 months at Royal Melbourne Hospital have cause to be very worried.
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It's a tiny vacuum cleaner for the brain: A new treatment for stroke victims promises to suction out clogged arteries in hopes of stopping the brain attack before it does permanent harm
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SUNDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) -- Currently, 26.6 million people worldwide have Alzheimer&#39;s disease and that number could grow to more than 100 million people by 2050, a new analysis shows.
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists studied 1,000 brain tumour patientsÂ· Wider investigation into phones due later this year
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THURSDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The close relatives of people with Parkinson's disease are at increased risk for depression and anxiety disorders, new research suggests.
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About one in 150 American children has autism, U.S. health officials said Thursday, calling the troubling disorder an urgent public health concern that is more common than they had thought.
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The little known and poorly understood syndrome seems to affect primarily women, researchers are reporting.
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Heart disease is Britain' biggest single killer disease but more people are more worried about developing Alzheimer's or cancer, according to a survey released on Friday.
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Science & environment: Project will give unprecedented insight into why some people are more susceptible to disease than others
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Research and investment into  brain-related illnesses is growing at an unprecedented rate as  scientific advances coincide with the demands of an aging  baby-boom population determined to beat the odds.
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By Julius A. Karash, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 5--Sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder, afflicts more than 70,000 people in the United States.
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Mental illness according to experts is assuming an alarming dimension all over the world. The preponderance of such cases is attracting the attention of individuals, governments and non-governmental organisations