While it may sound gross, ear wax could provide an inexpensive way to detection the disease early, before motor impairment ...

Air quality monitors reveal the eight U.S. cities with the dirtiest air, where pollution from vehicles, industry, and geography combine to create dangerous smog and health hazards for residents. [air ...

Professor Brian Castellani, from our Department of Sociology, has made significant contributions to a new report identifying air pollution as a public health crisis. The report, published by the Royal ...

Air pollution could be to blame for Parkinson's disease, a study has suggested. Research has found those living in heavily polluted cities are at higher risk of developing the incurable and ...

Researchers in ACS’ Analytical Chemistry report the initial development of a system that inexpensively screens for Parkinson’s disease from the odors in a person’s ear wax.

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and ...

Scientists have been studying Parkinson’s for many years, but they still don’t fully understand why it happens. Without ...

A single stroke coding error has prompted researchers to retract a previously published study on wildfire smoke exposure and ...

President Trump and religious groups emerged as some of the biggest winners from the Supreme Court this term. Losers included ...

A new study from Stanford Medicine has found that stopping an overactive enzyme in the brain might help protect and even ...

As of July 1, children experiencing medical emergencies can still go to and be treated at Thousand Oaks’ Los Robles Regional Medical Center, but once stabilized, they cannot stay. Citing a low volume ...

Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological disorder that primarily affects movement. It is characterized by the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain, specifically those producing ...