Medicine

Anorexia nervosa has long puzzled researchers with a deceptively simple question: are the hormone disturbances seen in patients a cause...

Kidney transplantation remains the gold-standard treatment for patients living with end-stage chronic kidney disease, but the surgery is only half...

In a sweeping audit of Colombia's evidence-based health guidance, researchers have found that more than half of the country's prioritized...

Traditional Chinese medicine enjoys broad goodwill among Malaysians living in cities, but a new study suggests that goodwill has not...

In a finding that may reshape how scientists think about the origins of one of the most common autoimmune diseases...

A quiet corner of the Baltic Sea has yielded a surprise for cancer researchers. A strain of soil-dwelling cyanobacteria, Nostoc...

Medication errors remain one of the most persistent threats to patient safety in hospitals worldwide, and the earliest point of...

In a striking reminder that even century-old vaccines can turn dangerous in the right — or rather, wrong — genetic...

Thirty years after a small group of European professors of geriatric medicine first warned that the continent's fastest-growing population was...

A silent liver-destroying virus continues to spread across the United States at an accelerating pace, even though the drugs that...