Medicine

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have long been known to face an elevated risk of blood clots, but a new...

In one of the largest neuropathological studies of multiple sclerosis ever undertaken, researchers examining autopsy brain tissue from 287 donors...

For decades, neurointensivists have peered at the jagged pulse traces scrolling across bedside monitors, trying to read in the shape...

In a development that could reshape how neuroscientists model the way external stimuli ripple through the brain, a new study...

A routine 12-lead electrocardiogram, the most ubiquitous and inexpensive diagnostic test in medicine, may hold far more information about the...

For the first time, scientists have captured direct, whole-brain evidence that computerized cognitive training physically strengthens the aging brain's cholinergic...

Aging is often described as the accumulation of damage inside our cells, but a growing body of evidence suggests that...

A team of biomedical engineers in Halifax, Canada, has demonstrated that a low-cost, handheld 3D ultrasound system can map the...

MRI scans of the brain are revealing subtle but measurable structural and functional changes in survivors of intimate partner violence,...

Acute liver failure is one of medicine's most unforgiving emergencies. When large numbers of hepatocytes, the liver's principal working cells,...