Medicine

Researchers have finally answered a deceptively simple question that has quietly shaped—and sometimes distorted—clinical trials in liver medicine: how much...

In the critical weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new kind of scientific publication quietly changed how the world made...

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

Every year, diabetic foot infections fill hospital wards with wounds that refuse to heal, limbs scheduled for amputation, and immune...

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

Everyday chemicals that quietly interfere with hormones—from the bisphenols lining food cans to the "forever chemicals" lingering in drinking water—may...

Health care in China increasingly arrives at the front door. Through the country's Internet Plus Nursing Services program, a patient...

Children who meet all three 24-hour movement-behavior targets—sufficient daily physical activity, limited recreational screen time and adequate sleep—are nearly four...

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,...