Health and Medicine

Each time you remember your first day of school or learn something new—like a colleague’s...

For patients confined to hospital beds, nursing homes, or even home care facilities, the biggest...

For over a century, people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes have been told the same...

For millions around the world, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a life lived in quiet...

As the world battles rising temperatures and faces another summer of record-breaking heat waves, scientists...

Every cell in your body—whether it forms your beating heart, your agile neurons, or the...

It sounds like the setup to a riddle: what do the brains of newborn babies...

In the midst of life after breast cancer—between follow-up scans, annual checkups, and cautious hope—many...

Sleep is as universal as life itself. Birds do it. Fish do it. Humans, cats,...

In the long and grinding battle against malaria, where progress has slowed and old strategies...

In the quiet dimness of a clinical lab at Washington University School of Medicine in...

In the world of cancer research, every discovery is a race against time. Melanoma, the...

For decades, the thalamus has been something of a backstage character in the grand drama...

After a sleepless night, there’s a particular kind of drowsiness that creeps into the body—a...

You're walking down the street on a warm summer evening when you hear it—the familiar...

For decades, oncologists have known that cancer doesn't play fair between the sexes. Men are...

Deep behind the brainstem, nestled like a hidden conductor in the back of the skull,...

In a quiet lab in Stockholm, scientists may have just rewritten the playbook for treating...

For decades, a shadow has hung over the soda can and the sweetened iced tea:...

When the liver is hurt, it tries to heal. But sometimes, in its effort to...

Pain is a part of life. It warns us of danger, signals when something is...