Aliyah Baruchin

The first thing you notice about 12-year-old Nora Leitner is the dark circles under her eyes. They stand in stark contrast to the rest of her appearance; at a glance she might be any petite, pretty tween girl, with her blond ponytail, elfin frame and…

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — On a sweltering morning on a red-earth lane a few blocks from the largest mosque in this West African capital, Jeneba Kabba stands up. A tall, striking woman with a serious manner, Mrs. Kabba has been sitting under an awning…

Epilepsy affects some 2.7 million Americans—more than Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) combined. More than half of patients can achieve seizure control with treatment, yet almost a third…

On July 9, 2009, Steve Wulchin went to wake his 19-year-old son, Eric, in their home in Boulder, Colo. Eric had been given a diagnosis of epilepsy three years earlier, but other than that, his father said, “there was nothing out of the ordinary.” His…

Months before the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved aducanumab (Aduhelm), the first medication thought to modify the progression of Alzheimer's disease, on June 7, Jay Reinstein had already made the decision to try it. Reinstein, 60, was…

A formerly controversial high-fat diet has proved highly effective in reducing seizures in children whose epilepsy does not respond to medication, British researchers are reporting. As the first randomized trial of the diet, the new study lends…

The use of a mobile stroke unit (MSU) to transport stroke patients cut time-to-thrombolysis even in the most densely populated borough of the most densely populated city in the US, New York City, a December 17, 2019 study in the Journal of the…

Black, Hispanic, and Asian patients in California were significantly less likely than White patients to receive an early diagnosis of dementia, and Asian patients were also less likely to receive key elements of a comprehensive dementia evaluation,…