Medicine

Before any medical student ever presses a biopsy punch into a living patient, someone has to decide whether their hands...

A lifeline on wheels: how a mobile addiction treatment unit in Rhode Island is reshaping opioid care In the fight...

Under the magnifying lens of a dermatoscope, a common skin cancer can reveal far more than whether it is cancer...

Three of the world's most widely used fracture-prediction tools have delivered an unusually consistent and unsettling verdict: a strikingly large...

Every cancer is, at heart, a genome that has drifted out of balance. As tumor cells divide, whole stretches of...

Deep beneath the skin of aging mice, small strips of laboratory-grown muscle have been quietly doing something extraordinary: contracting on...

Every heartbeat is an act of precision engineering. Inside each of the heart's muscle cells, thousands of sarcomeres—the fundamental motor...

In a Norwegian nursing home, ten residents with severe dementia spent a year gathered around a screen the size of...

Cancer cachexia, the devastating wasting syndrome that strips patients of muscle mass and strength in the advanced stages of solid...

Atherosclerosis has long been described as a disease of clogged arteries, but a new study presents a more intricate picture:...