Medicine

The Denisovans, the enigmatic archaic human relatives first identified from a finger bone and a handful of teeth in a...

Respiratory syncytial virus, known widely as RSV, has long been thought of as a disease of infancy, yet its burden...

Alcohol-related liver disease remains one of the most burdensome consequences of chronic alcohol consumption worldwide, progressing silently from fatty liver...

For athletes hunting for a legal edge in the final minutes before competition, caffeine has long been the go-to molecule....

Idiopathic short stature, the diagnosis given to children who fall far below normal height curves without any identifiable cause, has...

Pathological internet use among adolescents has long been treated as a single, uniform problem, but a new study of more...

For nearly two decades, forensic pathologists have been able to peer inside the dead without a scalpel, thanks to a...

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, better known as ARFID, has been formally recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...

Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus, the relentless and often debilitating itch that afflicts people on dialysis, has long been regarded primarily...

When governments decide whether to pay for a new medicine, a vaccine, a screening program or a medical device, the...