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At some point, your loved one with Parkinson’s disease may experience hallucinations, delusions, or illusions. It can be challenging for your loved one and you, as a spouse and caregiver.
While Parkinson’s is generally known for causing symptoms such as tremors and rigidity, it can also trigger psychosis, which is a loss of contact with reality.

Navigating treatment costs and insurance coverage for myasthenia gravis (MG) can be challenging and add to the stress of living with a condition like MG.

ADHD is often perceived as a “male” disorder that manifests in hyperactivity. But for girls, symptoms are often different.

Updated guidelines recommend that patients with cancer and obesity receive the full approved doses of immunotherapy and targeted therapies, but do oncologists agree with this approach?

Risks of moving clinical trials online include missing key information about the patient experience — and higher dropout rates could also impair the overall quality of trials.

Despite the gains of the #MeToo movement, women still hesitate to file work-related sexual harassment complaints for fear of repercussions. Now a study suggests people may indeed penalize female employees for self-reporting such experiences.

Deep down, many perfectionists feel like phonies. Their lofty, self-imposed standards also isolate them from others. A recovering perfectionist shares how they became free.

Between 1997 and June 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed some medical device manufacturers to submit summary reports of adverse events related to their products through a hidden “Alternative Summary Reporting” (ASR) program that enabled these manufacturers to bypass the publicly accessible Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database.

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When zoologist Ivan Sazima went for a walk in the park in southeastern Brazil on a warm September day in 2013, he was hoping to find noteworthy animal behavior to study.
But he did not expect to witness lizard necrophilia.

A perpetually shy introvert, Deborah Gray often experienced bullying at school. But by 9th grade, things started looking up: bullying had ceased, and Gray finally made friends.

Police officers investigating a crime may hesitate to interview drunk witnesses. But waiting until they sober up may not be the best strategy; people remember more while they are still inebriated than they do a week later, a new study finds.

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