“Acute” means that the cancer tends to develop quickly and requires aggressive treatment. “Chronic” leukemias tend to develop slower. AML develops in the blood-producing cells in your bone marrow and ...

When doctors suspect Alzheimer's, they can order a blood test to learn whether a patient's brain contains the sticky amyloid plaques that are a hallmark of the disease. But the results of that test ...

It was a shot in the dark — or at best, a dimly lit room: injecting a mouse with a little bit of spinal cord fluid from someone with the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Then ...

High levels of a certain enzyme in the fluid around a person’s brain and spinal cord could be a sign that they have Parkinson’s disease – potentially enabling the condition to be diagnosed earlier.

Armando Medrano started experiencing headaches in January 2022. Usually, they happened early in the morning, but often they wouldn't go away. His primary care doctor saw him a couple of times from ...

A team at Stanford University has demonstrated a new approach to reversing memory loss — in mice. An infusion of spinal fluid from young mice reversed the memory loss typically seen in aging animals, ...