Medicine

As populations age, the ability to understand, evaluate, and use health information is becoming an increasingly important determinant of everyday...

Liquid biopsy is emerging as a potential way to detect and monitor cancer without repeatedly removing tissue from a tumor....

Cigarette smoking remains one of the most persistent and preventable causes of disease worldwide, exposing people to a complex mixture...

A new study published in Nature Communications is challenging one of psychiatry’s most persistent assumptions: that major mental disorders can...

A process long associated with genomic instability may have a carefully controlled role in human development, according to a study...

Nicotine patches are often viewed as the quietest tool in the fight against smoking: a small adhesive strip placed on...

A drug already used to calm overactive immune signaling may offer a way to prevent one of the most devastating...

Cigarette smoking remains one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States, killing nearly half a million...

People with diabetes who develop both heart failure and end-stage kidney disease face one of medicine’s most difficult cardiovascular challenges....

Mitochondria are often described as the power stations of the cell, but they are also strategic decision-makers in cellular survival....