Medicine

In 2007, readers of the British Medical Journal were asked to name the greatest medical advance since 1840. More than...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is battling the seventeenth Ebola outbreak in its recorded history, and the figures arriving...

The Hidden Variable in Hospital Digitalization: Landmark Study Finds Software Vendor Choice Shapes Digital Maturity Across 1,600 Hospitals When a...

For nearly two decades, transcranial direct current stimulation—tDCS to its friends—has hovered at the intersection of genuine neuroscience and consumer...

Aging has long been narrated as a story written in hormones, genes and mitochondria, but a new synthesis argues that...

Every operation is a river of gestures — grasping, cutting, suturing, cauterizing — that pour into one another with almost...

Scientists at Fujian Medical University in China have mapped a previously hidden circuit that ties cellular metabolism to innate antiviral...

Gastric cancer remains one of the world's most lethal malignancies, and predicting which patients will survive has long depended on...

More than two decades after the world's industrialized nations agreed to phase them out, polychlorinated biphenyls are still being measured...

For two months, a 60-year-old woman watched — in whatever way she still could — as her mind quietly slipped...