Health

Scientists have uncovered a previously underappreciated molecular player in one of the most devastating premature aging disorders known to medicine,...

Hypertension, the silent condition that affects roughly one in three adults worldwide, may be doing far more than straining the...

Artificial intelligence systems that can look at a surgical image and answer a clinician’s question are moving rapidly from research...

A narrowing of the carotid artery that has not yet caused any symptoms may already be quietly reshaping the way...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma remains one of the most formidable opponents in clinical oncology, a disease so aggressive and so resistant...

Parkinson’s disease has long been a diagnosis of observation and inference. Doctors watched for tremor, rigidity, and slowness of movement,...

Twenty-five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism that helps explain why a small but devastating fraction of patients who take...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism that drives the malignant progression of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, one of the most...

Every year, thousands of babies are born with congenital heart disease, and for a growing number of them, the diagnosis...

In a medical milestone that is drawing attention from pediatric heart specialists around the world, a surgical and intensive care...

Adults living with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders carry a substantially heavier burden of mental illness, suicidal behavior, and substance use...

Fentanyl has become one of the most consequential substances in modern forensic pathology, yet a fundamental question haunts every medicolegal...

Eating disorders remain among the most psychologically devastating and costly mental health conditions affecting young women worldwide, and a growing...

Scientists are taking a hard look at whether the world’s most widely prescribed diabetes medications could do far more than...

A new study from Iran’s largest academic medical center offers a rare, quantified look at why clinicians in developing countries...

Scientists in China have unveiled a streamlined analytical strategy that could reshape how one of traditional Chinese medicine’s most important...

A routine pair of blood tests—one measuring uric acid, the other a cholesterol ratio few patients have ever heard of—may...

The Nipah virus, one of the deadliest pathogens on the World Health Organization’s priority list, has long haunted public health...

In the rolling highlands of Northwest Ethiopia, where a single ambulance may serve tens of thousands of people scattered across...