medicine
A long-maligned treatment outperforms the trendy one.
Some patients wait over 5 years for a liver transplant.
Antidepressants can help alleviate PTSD symptoms when paired with psychotherapy, but does our overenthusiasm for them blind us to more effective alternatives?
This opens the door to manipulating networks of specific neurons.
When other treatments fail, this radical surgery could help.
Oxytocin can boost heart cells' ability to regenerate.
Biotechnology can convert enemy viruses into anti-cancer mercenaries.
Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.
The world has improved in mind-blowing ways.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
Fluphenazine, once used to treat schizophrenia, is capable of blocking a compound connected to chronic pain.
The new agency wants to push the boundaries of science and technology.
These dissolvable pills aren’t meant to be swallowed, though.
The separation of conjoined twins is fraught with stomach-churning biomedical and ethical challenges.
These salamanders are helping unlock the mysteries of brain evolution and regeneration.
The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.
HIV mutates rapidly, which has made the development of a vaccine an enormous challenge for decades. Finally, we might have one.
Athletes often use creatine to boost performance and aid muscle recovery. Accumulating evidence suggests it could also help with depression.
The AI test can be done every night at home while the person is asleep, without even touching their body.
We also don't know how Tylenol works. But it does work.
By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.
Before anesthetics, some patients would die of the pain on the operating table.
Is it deliberate fraud or just bad research?
The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.
The antibodies elicited by the "S2 vaccine" not only neutralize COVID's multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.
New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.
If you want a medication to kick in faster, lean right.
While one may be helpful, the other may be harmful.
Heart muscle is shaped like a spiral, a mystery that has eluded scientists since 1669. New research has recreated the structure.