Comcast announced today it will award grant packages to 100 small businesses in Nashville and surrounding areas as part of its Representation, Investment, Strength and Empowerment (RISE) program. This ...

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PEOPLE obtained a final autopsy report regarding Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy's February deaths on Sunday, April 27. New ...

The Hood River County Health Department confirmed April 14 that two people have died from a mad cow-like illness called ...

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One of the world’s largest footwear companies is developing a shoe specifically tailored to the needs of people with Down syndrome. Adidas said it is working with Chris Nikic, who is known as the ...

Of all participants, 25% had metabolic syndrome. Over an average follow-up period of eight years, 8,921 people, or 0.45% of all participants, developed dementia. For those with metabolic syndrome ...

All people confirmed by NSW Health to have contracted the disease were in Sydney’s CBD and neighbouring suburbs between March 13 and April 5. The Mayo Clinic classifies Legionnaires’ disease ...

Brought into the limelight by actor Michael J. Fox, Parkinson's disease affects the body's ability to control movement. The most prominent signs of Parkinson's disease result from damage to brain ...

While most dementia is diagnosed in older age, young-onset dementia occurs while a person is still working and perhaps raising a family. Our study found having metabolic syndrome in middle age is ...

Joy Milne first smelled the disease on her late husband, Les, 17 years before he was diagnosed with it Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...