The Food and Drug Administration has posted its review of a Medtronic device that treats seizures by stimulating areas of the brain used for movement. UNSTIMULATING RESULTS: The FDA said Medtronic's study of the device in epilepsy patients missed its goal of showing reduced seizures during ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A new study shows that it's how many years of smoking a person has under their belt -- rather than how much they smoke every day -- that matters. "Smoking is bad for you and no one should advocate smoking just for ...

Strokes are not just an affliction of people who are older. Data from Ohio and Kentucky presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2010 show more young people are having strokes while older people are having fewer. The average age of stroke patients in 2005 was nearly three years younger than it was ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with Parkinson's disease face an increased risk of the most deadly type of skin cancer, new research confirms. Exams of more than 2,000 people with Parkinson's disease found that about 1 percent currently had melanoma, Dr. John M. Bertoni of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and his colleagues found ...