Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the name given to the occurrence of a death to a otherwise healthy infant that is unexplained and in which all other causes have been ruled out through an autopsy, medical and death scene investigation. SIDS is the cause of more deaths of babies from age one month to [...]

Up-and-down cycle flattens as age disrupts pattern A marker for Alzheimer’s disease rises and falls in the spinal fluid in a daily pattern that echoes the sleep cycle, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found. The pattern is strongest in healthy young people and reinforces a link b…

As part of the requirements of being board-certified in a specialty, a physician must participate in something called continuing medical education. So I recently went off to a meeting to learn more about lots of subjects and will be presenting some of them to you in the coming weeks. One of the things that was [...]

The idea that chronic fatigue syndrome may be caused by the virus named XMRV — a widely debated theory proposed a few years ago — received yet another blow. A new study undermines the credibility of the original report that claimed a link between XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome, by showing that the labs that [...]

A new study published by Cell Press on September 8 in the American Journal of Human Genetics uncovers a mutation that causes narcolepsy in a large family affected by the disorder. The research sheds new light on the genetics of inherited narcolepsy and provides intriguing insight into other complex neuropsychiatric disorders.…