Medicine

In an era when sweetened beverages dominate the diets of children and adolescents, scientists are increasingly asking what a lifetime...

Ovulation has long been described as a rupture, a brief and violent moment when a mature follicle bursts open to...

A new comprehensive review is drawing attention to an intriguing possibility: that modern diabetes drugs may do far more than...

Scientists have mapped an intricate web of competing genetic regulators in the brains of Alzheimer's disease model mice, and in...

The liver is not a uniform organ, and the hormone estradiol does not act on it uniformly either. That is...

Medication errors in the home are among the most common and most preventable causes of avoidable harm in modern healthcare,...

Caring for a young autistic child places extraordinary demands on families, but new research from China suggests that the single...

In a development that could reshape how surgeons train for some of the most dangerous operations in medicine, a multidisciplinary...

Mobile methadone clinics are moving from theory to reality across New York State, but a new study reveals that the...

Mohs micrographic surgery has long been regarded as the gold standard for treating many nonmelanoma skin cancers, offering the highest...