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Anorexia nervosa has long puzzled researchers with a deceptively simple question: are the hormone disturbances seen in patients a cause of the illness, a consequence...

Kidney transplantation remains the gold-standard treatment for patients living with end-stage chronic kidney disease, but the surgery is only half of the story. The other...

In a sweeping audit of Colombia’s evidence-based health guidance, researchers have found that more than half of the country’s prioritized clinical recommendations remain stuck waiting...

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

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

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

Abiotic stresses—drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, and heavy metal toxicity—are responsible for an estimated 40 to 70 percent of yield losses in the world’s primary food...

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

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

A quiet corner of the Baltic Sea has yielded a surprise for cancer researchers. A strain of soil-dwelling cyanobacteria, Nostoc edaphicum CCNP1411, isolated in 2010...

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

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

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

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

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