Medicine

A drug that millions of people with breast cancer already take every day may be hiding a second, unexpected talent:...

A routine photograph of the back of the eye has quietly become one of the most information-dense objects in modern...

Tuberculosis has quietly reclaimed a title no pathogen should want: the world's deadliest infectious disease. According to the World Health...

For decades, public health messaging has rested on a comfortable premise: as people age, they become less active, more sedentary...

In the parched backlands of northeastern Brazil, the journey of a single drop of water—whether it begins on a rooftop,...

Tuberculosis has been outsmarting antibiotics for decades, but one of humanity's deadliest infections may have finally met its analytical match:...

China has unveiled the extraordinary scale of one of the world's largest prospective studies of aging, with the publication of...

Few molecules have ridden a more dramatic rollercoaster through modern medicine than vitamin C, and few have inspired sharper disagreement...

Young adults in the United Kingdom who suffer strokes carry a strikingly varied mix of risk factors and underlying causes,...

A radioactive tracer engineered to illuminate the fibrous scaffolding surrounding tumor cells — rather than the tumors' appetite for sugar...