Medicine

A process long associated with genomic instability may have a carefully controlled role in human development, according to a study...

Nicotine patches are often viewed as the quietest tool in the fight against smoking: a small adhesive strip placed on...

A drug already used to calm overactive immune signaling may offer a way to prevent one of the most devastating...

Cigarette smoking remains one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States, killing nearly half a million...

People with diabetes who develop both heart failure and end-stage kidney disease face one of medicine’s most difficult cardiovascular challenges....

Mitochondria are often described as the power stations of the cell, but they are also strategic decision-makers in cellular survival....

A subtle change in the way older adults walk may offer an important clue about a condition that combines two...

A review of 78 international studies is challenging some of the most persistent beliefs about breastfeeding during the first days...

Influenza transmission within households is shaped by far more than whether one person becomes infected, according to a study by...

Pancreatic cancer may be one of the most difficult cancers to treat, but new research points to a microscopic event...