Medicine

A tiny molecule that teaches both cancer cells and immune cells to fight is offering a new angle on one...

Human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world, remains a formidable public health challenge despite decades of...

Colistin was supposed to be the last line of defense. When carbapenems failed and every other antibiotic had been exhausted,...

Antihypertensive treatment has prevented a substantial and growing share of strokes worldwide over the past three decades, but the benefits...

For the millions of patients who require a breathing tube each year, the moment of liberation from the ventilator is...

A simple bedside test that has been used for decades to probe the frontal lobes may be less powerful at...

Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy has transformed the outlook for patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors, delivering targeted radiation to tumor cells...

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...