Medicine

A new study using whole-body metabolic imaging has linked unusually active visceral fat—the energy-storing tissue packed around abdominal organs—with disrupted...

A standard blood test could help doctors identify heart-failure patients who face a substantially higher risk of dying over the...

A gene best known for controlling cholesterol production has emerged as a potential defender against the chain of mitochondrial damage...

Parkinson’s Disease Shows a Molecular Diversity That Could Explain Its Uneven Course Parkinson’s disease is often described as a single...

A two-part saline treatment commonly used to control dangerous pressure inside the skull was associated with substantially lower mortality among...

Your Brain Data Could Become the Next Cybersecurity Battlefield As brain-computer interfaces, neural implants and emotion-detection systems move from science...

A seven-month-old boy with three weeks of unexplained fever and enormous coronary artery aneurysms has prompted physicians to consider an...

Obesity is often described as a personal struggle, but in Mexico it has become a population-wide health emergency—and a new...

Sweetened Alcohol Damages Adolescent Rat Livers Differently in Males and Females A laboratory study has found that consuming alcohol together...

A warning from a new clinical critique is putting a spotlight on a potentially dangerous blind spot in research on...