An herbal tablet that Chinese physicians have relied on for decades to calm bile-congested, inflamed livers has now been decoded...

The blockbuster medications behind the Ozempic revolution may be able to stop type 2 diabetes before it ever begins. A...

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When it comes to diagnosing sarcopenia—the age-related loss of muscle mass and strength that quietly erodes mobility and independence in...

Modern medicine has become remarkably good at putting patients on medications—and strikingly bad at taking them off. Clinical practice guidelines,...

Thousands of people around the world now live with a mechanical pump beating quietly alongside their failing hearts, and for...

Endometriosis is one of medicine's most stubborn puzzles: a hormone-dependent, chronic inflammatory disease in which tissue resembling the uterine lining...

Ultrasound imaging has always been medicine's great equalizer—cheap, safe, portable, and free of ionizing radiation. But it has also remained...

Preventing HIV among the people at highest risk of acquiring it may cost far less than many public health agencies...