Health

Reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease in families

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurologic disorder that causes memory loss and other cognitive decline due to brain cell degeneration. It's the most common cause of dementia—a clinical syndrome characterized by a ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Q&A: Down syndrome associated with serious respiratory complications

People with Down syndrome are more likely than the general population to develop serious respiratory infections. Often, symptoms are so severe that patients require hospitalization. As respiratory season moves in, researchers ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Q&A: Testing the efficacy of new vaccines against enteroviruses

Marta Butrym from the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), at the department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH), is defending her thesis, "Novel vaccines and antiviral treatments for enterovirus induced infections and disease," ...

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