Dear Doctors: I have always liked how yawning feels and wondered what it's for. I just read there is new information about how yawning affects your brain. Do you know anything about that?

Alector (NASDAQ:ALEC) used a presentation at the 46th Annual TD Cowen Healthcare Conference to highlight progress on its Alector Brain Carrier (ABC) platform, which is designed to deliver multiple ...

Background Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) loss in spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is accompanied by volume shifts between the intracranial compartments. This study investigated tricompartimental ...

A local Secret Santa is giving $1 million to deserving people in eastern Idaho this holiday season. Every day, from now until the end of the year, the East Idaho News elves will be delivering gifts ...

Impaired glymphatic function — the brain’s waste clearance system — could help explain how cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors may drive dementia. In a large UK Biobank study, MRI markers of ...

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, also called pseudotumor cerebri, refers to elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure that develops most often in women of reproductive age with obesity, causing ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

Psoriasis is an autoimmune skin disease associated with increased incidence and severity of chronic kidney disease and hypertension. The mechanisms linking psoriasis skin inflammation with these ...

The choroid plexus, the major source of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), contains receptors for angiotensin II and a very high concentration of angiotensin converting enzyme. Circulating angiotensin II ...

LEXINGTON, Mass., June 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Partner Therapeutics, Inc. (PTx) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ...