Rising diagnoses of young onset dementia highlight the need for early recognition and timely evaluation of a condition that disrupts patients’ careers, families, and financial stability.

How can we explain the onset of psychotic symptoms characteristic of schizophrenia? Despite their major and often irreversible impact on intellectual abilities and autonomy, the biological mechanisms ...

Early-onset colorectal cancer refers to colon and rectal cancers that develop in people before age 50. While colorectal cancer mostly occurs among people 50 and older, the number of younger people ...

When symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), such as weakness and a loss of muscle mass, start in the limbs, doctors refer to the condition as limb onset ALS. ALS is a progressive condition ...

Share on Pinterest New research suggests accelerated biological aging may be driving increasing early-onset cancer rates in young people. BitsAndSplits/Getty Images Recent studies show the incidence ...

For months Liz Day, then 41, experienced shoulder and neck pain. When physical therapy failed to reduce her pain, she followed up with doctors and learned that young onset Parkinson’s disease was the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rebecca Luna thought she was forgetting things because she was stressed. A neurologist told her it was early-onset Alzheimer's.

Rates of certain cancers in the United States — including breast, colorectal, and thyroid cancers — increased between 2010 and 2019 among patients aged less than 50 years, while overall cancer ...

While inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can occur at any age, research shows that it tends to onset between ages 15 to 29. However, late- or early-onset IBD can still occur in those outside of this age ...