Medicine

The most consequential decision in the treatment of a deep soft tissue sarcoma is often made before a single incision...

Deep inside a spoonful of ordinary soil, a microscopic chemist has been quietly manufacturing a molecule that could one day...

For thousands of autistic adults, every shift at work comes with a hidden second job: the continuous, exhausting labor of...

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...

For a disease defined by excess — thick, red, scaly plaques built from skin cells that multiply far too fast...

Patients on peritoneal dialysis face a substantial burden of fragility fractures, most of which turn out to be silent vertebral...

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

Scientists have identified a new genetic cause of autism and intellectual disability — and traced it to an unexpected place:...

A drug that millions of people with breast cancer already take every day may be hiding a second, unexpected talent:...