Medicine

A routine skin examination in a psychiatric hospital ward has revealed something that clinicians and researchers have long suspected but...

Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw, or MRONJ, is one of the most feared complications of the drugs used to protect...

Cognitive decline may be an inevitable companion of aging, but a sweeping new study from China suggests that the protective...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about heart disease risk in people living with HIV, a large...

For millions of older adults living with multiple chronic diseases, the loss of the ability to walk even a few...

Pregnancy has long been monitored with a simple blood test and a simple rule: if haemoglobin falls below a fixed...

A machine learning model developed by researchers in China may soon help surgeons answer one of the most persistent questions...

When researchers asked a group of British teenagers about polio, one of them delivered an answer that has since become...

Sepsis remains one of the most formidable challenges in modern intensive care, a syndrome in which the body's response to...

The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic claimed roughly 13,120 more lives than expected among older people in the...