Medicine

Health care in China increasingly arrives at the front door. Through the country's Internet Plus Nursing Services program, a patient...

Children who meet all three 24-hour movement-behavior targets—sufficient daily physical activity, limited recreational screen time and adequate sleep—are nearly four...

When it comes to diagnosing sarcopenia—the age-related loss of muscle mass and strength that quietly erodes mobility and independence in...

Modern medicine has become remarkably good at putting patients on medications—and strikingly bad at taking them off. Clinical practice guidelines,...

Glioblastoma, the most aggressive primary brain cancer in adults, has long defeated the standard chemotherapeutic temozolomide through a frustrating combination...

Thousands of people around the world now live with a mechanical pump beating quietly alongside their failing hearts, and for...

Lung cancer is the world's deadliest cancer, and yet the way medicine measures it has barely changed in decades. A...

Endometriosis is one of medicine's most stubborn puzzles: a hormone-dependent, chronic inflammatory disease in which tissue resembling the uterine lining...

The aging ovary has long been told as a story of loss: fewer eggs, poorer-quality eggs, and a slow fade...

In a discovery that could reshape how scientists explain the origins of atrial fibrillation, researchers in Italy have shown that...