Cardiology

Hope for spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Research on spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD, has exploded in the last decade, says Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and a leading expert on this rare heart condition.

Health informatics

How does a person's ethnicity impact their risk of death?

In the U.K., disparities in mortality risk factors exist between ethnic groups, with differences in overall mortality, top causes of mortality and individual mortality risk factors, according to a new study published this ...

Genetics

Genetic risk scores tied to psychiatric diagnostic trajectories

Genetic risk factors for major depression (MD), bipolar disorder (BD), other nonaffective psychosis (ONAP), and schizophrenia are systematically associated with their diagnostic trajectories, according to a study published ...

Neuroscience

How frontotemporal dementia changes the brain

Around 55 million people worldwide suffer from dementia such as Alzheimer's disease. Recently, the actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a rare type of dementia that typically affects people ...

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