Medicine

Every heartbeat is an act of precision engineering. Inside each of the heart's muscle cells, thousands of sarcomeres—the fundamental motor...

In a Norwegian nursing home, ten residents with severe dementia spent a year gathered around a screen the size of...

Cancer cachexia, the devastating wasting syndrome that strips patients of muscle mass and strength in the advanced stages of solid...

Atherosclerosis has long been described as a disease of clogged arteries, but a new study presents a more intricate picture:...

Scabies and impetigo are drawing renewed attention in the Pacific, where two closely linked skin diseases can spread rapidly through...

A blood-pressure cuff wrapped around an arm or leg may improve the brain’s ability to regulate its own blood supply...

A decade of health data from Beijing has revealed a complex and potentially consequential shift in cardiovascular disease across the...

A 15-year review of hospitalized patients in northern China has revealed a sharp rise in pulmonary aspergillosis during the COVID-19...

A new statistical framework could make Mendelian randomization more sensitive to the biological connections linking multiple traits, allowing researchers to...

Beta-Blockers in the Intensive Care Unit: Powerful Rescue Drugs or a Risky Physiological Gamble? When the human body enters critical...