Medicine

For millions of older adults, chronic low back pain is far more than a nagging ache — it is often...

Five minutes of rhythmic Quran recitation is enough to measurably shift the chemistry of the human stress response, according to...

When women pass through menopause, their risk of hypertension climbs sharply, yet the brain-based mechanisms driving this transition have remained...

The most consequential decision in the treatment of a deep soft tissue sarcoma is often made before a single incision...

Deep inside a spoonful of ordinary soil, a microscopic chemist has been quietly manufacturing a molecule that could one day...

For thousands of autistic adults, every shift at work comes with a hidden second job: the continuous, exhausting labor of...

Ultrasound imaging has always been medicine's great equalizer—cheap, safe, portable, and free of ionizing radiation. But it has also remained...

Preventing HIV among the people at highest risk of acquiring it may cost far less than many public health agencies...

For a disease defined by excess — thick, red, scaly plaques built from skin cells that multiply far too fast...

Patients on peritoneal dialysis face a substantial burden of fragility fractures, most of which turn out to be silent vertebral...