The prevalence of kidney stones has doubled in the past 30 years. Academic researchers are searching for better solutions for ...

When Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute oncologist Brian Wolpin, MD, took the stage at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting earlier this year, he didn’t expect to get ...

Bigger muscles. Speedier injury healing. A longer life. Whatever the health or fitness concern, there’s probably a peptide purported to address it. Indeed, the use of these injectable substances, many ...

Skin cancer cases in the United States more than tripled from 1975 to 2021, despite technological advances in sunscreens and public awareness of the risks of sun exposure. In Canada, melanoma — the ...

Visitors to the Human Longevity Laboratory, part of the Potocsnak Longevity Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, spend up to three hours undergoing a battery of tests.

The 67-year-old patient had run out of options. The bioprosthetic aortic valve in his heart was failing and needed to be replaced. But the opening of his left coronary artery was so close to the valve ...

In January the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made significant changes to the nation’s childhood vaccination schedule. For ...

For infectious disease (ID) specialist Helen Boucher, MD, dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine and chief academic officer of Tufts Medicine, the threat of drug-resistant superbugs is up ...

Every year, 1.3 million American women reach menopause, many having experienced years of bewildering symptoms that mark the end of their reproductive lives. Yet less than half of women ages 50 to 64 ...

First place at 2025 Ironman Cairns. First place at 2025 Ironman Lake Placid. Fourth place in the 2024 Ironman Pro Series (and second place in the series so far in 2025). If this sounds like the résumé ...

Up to 650 layoffs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Tennessee. More than 200 positions eliminated at UC San Diego Health. A hiring pause at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire. Those are ...

Louise McCullough, MD, PhD, didn’t originally plan to study the microbiome — the collection of trillions of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms that live in the gastrointestinal (GI) ...