Medicine

Atherosclerosis, the slow silent narrowing of the arteries that underlies most heart attacks and strokes, has long been understood as...

A landmark effort to bring Indigenous healing practices into the formal health care system is about to face its most...

Radiologists may soon be able to tell whether a tiny, hazy spot on a lung CT scan is a harmless...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden chapter in the life of the cilium, the tiny antenna-like projection that cells use to...

Deep brain stimulation has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living with Parkinson's disease, but a quiet...

Every week, it seems, a new stretching challenge goes viral, promising that a few minutes of daily static stretching will...

Researchers in China have mapped, in unprecedented detail, how the B-cell compartment of the immune system is reshaped in children...

Electrodermal activity, the tiny changes in the electrical conductance of the skin that have long served as one of psychology's...

Vaping has become one of the most widely adopted nicotine delivery methods of the past decade, particularly among adolescents and...

Glaucoma surgeons have long known that the same operation can produce strikingly different results from one patient to the next,...