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...

Vietnam is aging at a speed few countries can match, and the people carrying that demographic weight are rendering a...

Tuberculosis has quietly reclaimed a title no pathogen should want: the world's deadliest infectious disease. According to the World Health...

Every day in catheterization laboratories around the world, cardiologists confront the same frustrating category of blockage: the intermediate coronary stenosis,...

Deep inside the humming steel tanks that step electricity up and down the modern grid, failing machines leave a chemical...