Medicine

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...

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...