Medicine

Water treatment is entering an era in which removing pollutants is no longer enough. The next generation of purification technologies...

Blindness and moderate-to-severe visual impairment affect an estimated 340 million people worldwide, transforming an ordinary walk through a neighborhood into...

A familiar cell-cycle protein may be helping aging cells broadcast inflammatory signals throughout the body, according to a new study...

A heart transplant can restore circulation, reverse advanced heart failure and give patients years of life, but the new organ...

A new multinational study has found that sustained extreme heat is associated with a measurable rise in hospitalizations for mental...

A small peptide derived from a stress-response protein has improved motor performance and extended survival in mice modeling amyotrophic lateral...

A large analysis of Chinese adults has uncovered a potentially important—and unexpected—link between dietary calcium intake and hyperuricemia, the condition...

Treatment failure on a first-line HIV regimen can mark a critical turning point in long-term care, raising questions about drug...

A new meta-research study is drawing attention to a largely invisible problem in nutrition science: the dietary exposure that researchers...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and hospital-acquired pneumonia remain among the most difficult infections to diagnose and treat in intensive-care medicine. Patients who...