The bipolar spectrum includes baseline temperaments like hyperthymia, dysthymia, and cyclothymia, which can change how ...

“Bad,” or LDL, cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease and most people are screened for it as part of their yearly physicals. There’s another marker in the blood that may be a better ...

A 3-year-old boy from California is faring well, nine months after becoming the first person to receive a new gene therapy for a rare, life-shortening genetic disorder called Hunter syndrome. Oliver ...

The test correctly identified all the positive cases and led to the proper diagnosis of the three suspected to have it, two of whom had received negative results from standard genetic testing. "Our ...

Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have developed a targeted genetic test to improve diagnosis for X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP), a rare and disabling ...

An experimental depression drug that joined the Neurocrine Biosciences pipeline as part of a broader package from Takeda Pharmaceutical failed to meet the main goal of a mid-stage clinical trial. The ...

Jordan Kruse realized something was wrong with her newborn, Pruitt, hours after bringing him home from the hospital last year. “He started to refuse nursing,” Kruse, 32, told The Post. “You’re ...

As we get into another winter holiday season, COVID is still part of our lives. And although it's hard to predict exactly what this year's cold, flu and coronavirus season will look like, experts want ...

"No cancer signal detected." The blood test results popped up in my online health portal without much fanfare. A doctor would chat about them with me later, congratulating me on the "phew"-worthy ...

Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they couldn’t figure out why. A single clot alone can be lethal; but the ...

Myriad Genetics, Inc., a leader in molecular diagnostic testing and precision medicine, today announced the publication of a new meta-analysis of six prospective controlled studies that included 3,532 ...

Persistent depressive disorder, known as dysthymia or low-grade depression, is less severe than major depression but more chronic. It occurs twice as often in women as in men. Persistent depressive ...