A quiet corner of the Baltic Sea has yielded a surprise for cancer researchers. A strain of soil-dwelling cyanobacteria, Nostoc...

Medication errors remain one of the most persistent threats to patient safety in hospitals worldwide, and the earliest point of...

In a striking reminder that even century-old vaccines can turn dangerous in the right — or rather, wrong — genetic...

Thirty years after a small group of European professors of geriatric medicine first warned that the continent’s fastest-growing population was...

A silent liver-destroying virus continues to spread across the United States at an accelerating pace, even though the drugs that...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a relentlessly progressive and fatal scarring disease of the lungs, has long frustrated clinicians with only two...

Endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory condition affecting an estimated one in ten women of reproductive age, has long frustrated clinicians with...

In a finding that could reshape how ophthalmologists think about one of the most delicate complications of corneal surgery, a...

In a finding that could reshape the search for new treatments against one of the deadliest gynecologic malignancies, researchers in...

Recurrent pregnancy loss affects an estimated one in a hundred couples trying to build a family, yet in a striking...

A sweeping new narrative review published in the Journal of Translational Medicine is pulling back the curtain on one of...

Every year, tons of melon seeds are discarded as agricultural waste while the fruit itself travels from farm to market....

Fire alarms that cry wolf have long been one of the most frustrating weaknesses of smart home technology, but a...

Osteoarthritis has long been known to strike women far more often than men, a disparity so consistent that researchers have...

In a finding that is already rippling through entomology and beekeeping communities online, researchers in China have revealed that a...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most formidable threats to global health, and its burden falls disproportionately on countries with...

Scientists investigating why some patients with non–small cell lung cancer stop responding to cisplatin, one of the most widely used...

A widely held belief connecting children’s diets to their language development in autism has been put to a rigorous statistical...

The growing global burden of sarcopenia—the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that accompanies aging—has long outpaced the...

In a development that could reshape how neurosurgeons approach one of the most delicate corridors in the human skull, researchers...