Category: Health and Medicine

At every high school reunion, there’s a quiet reckoning. Some classmates still carry the energy of youth—bright-eyed, quick-witted, lean and…

Cancer has long been a master of disguise and deception—tricking immune cells, hijacking blood vessels, and reshaping its environment to…

For generations, the scientific consensus has been clear: the human brain, though it makes up only about 2% of our…

They are too small to see, and yet they are everywhere—in oceans and rivers, in food, in the air we…

In a quiet laboratory, a few tiny structures no larger than chia seeds throb rhythmically under a microscope. They are…

Lung cancer has long carried the shadow of cigarettes. It’s a disease that, for decades, has been almost synonymous with…

In the relentless rhythm of modern life, many of us dream of a shortcut—a way to get the benefits of…

In a quiet corner of a lab at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, a group of scientists may…

You accidentally bite the inside of your cheek while chewing. It hurts, stings for a moment, and then, astonishingly, it…

If you’ve ever blamed a late-night slice of pizza or a bowl of ice cream for your restless sleep or…

In a laboratory half a world apart from one another, scientists in the United States and Sweden are working on…

In recent years, a strange new kind of evidence has begun to appear in courtrooms: brain scans. Once the domain…

Every day, millions of people around the world begin to lose pieces of themselves—memories slipping like grains of sand, familiar…

Imagine you’re staring at a screen. A faint image flickers for a moment—was it there? Did you really see it?…

Each time you remember your first day of school or learn something new—like a colleague’s name or how to unlock…

For patients confined to hospital beds, nursing homes, or even home care facilities, the biggest threat often doesn’t come from…

For over a century, people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes have been told the same thing: your body has lost…

For millions around the world, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a life lived in quiet agony. Chronic pain. Fatigue. Endless…

As the world battles rising temperatures and faces another summer of record-breaking heat waves, scientists are uncovering a hidden and…

Every cell in your body—whether it forms your beating heart, your agile neurons, or the skin you live in—runs on…

It sounds like the setup to a riddle: what do the brains of newborn babies and people with Alzheimer’s disease…

In the midst of life after breast cancer—between follow-up scans, annual checkups, and cautious hope—many survivors share a common worry:…