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Endometrial cancer, one of the most common gynecological malignancies worldwide, has been quietly rising in incidence for decades, and for...

Traditional Chinese medicine enjoys broad goodwill among Malaysians living in cities, but a new study suggests that goodwill has not...

In a finding that may reshape how scientists think about the origins of one of the most common autoimmune diseases...

Abiotic stresses—drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, and heavy metal toxicity—are responsible for an estimated 40 to 70 percent of yield losses...

Green manure could be one of the most underused tools in the fight against soil degradation, according to a comprehensive...

Deep in the mountainous borderlands where China, India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh meet, a semi-domesticated bovine known as the Gayal (Bos...

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...