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To Your Health: Alzheimer’s disease most common dementia

June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, so it’s an appropriate time to take a look at diseases that affect memory and cognition. While the term dementia is often used to describe a disease that ...
Healthline

Heart Disease Deaths Decline, but Remain Leading Cause of Death in U.S.

Deaths from heart disease and stroke are declining, but still kill more Americans than any other cause, according to new data ...
KIMT News 3

Mayo Clinic's gene therapy breakthrough targets most-common kidney disease

The disease leads to the progressive growth of fluid-filled cysts in the kidneys, often resulting in kidney failure and other ...
New York Post

Beware this common disease that attacks from the inside — and the bad habit worsening it

It can be a real pain in the neck. Rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, is an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakenly attacks the lining of the joints, causing painful swelling and stiffness. About ...
CNN

A surprisingly common liver disease affects millions in the US. What to know, according to a doctor

A health condition many people have never heard of has become one of the most common liver diseases in the United States. Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, often ...

Prostate cancer overtakes breast as most common form of the disease – do you know the signs?

PROSTATE cancer has become the most common form of the disease in Britain for the first time. Analysis of NHS figures by ...
Healthline

Common health conditions in older adults

Medical issues that are more common in older age range from markers such as high cholesterol to conditions like arthritis, diabetes, and, in more serious cases, heart disease and stroke. Most ...