Compared with traditional replacement valves, sutureless valves placed through minimally invasive cardiac surgery have less data supporting their use but offer unique features that might make […]

Within the next few years, patients will go to their primary care facility for a medical problem. They’ll be greeted by a nonhuman who speaks in […]

Physicians who fail to help patients suffering from addiction blame their institutions and their own limitations in skill, knowledge, available brainpower, and faith that interventions will […]

Louisiana lawmakers have added two drugs commonly used in pregnancy and reproductive healthcare to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, a move that has alarmed […]

Lauren Opladen remembers the agonizing wait all too well. At age 17, struggling with paralyzing depression after losing her brother to suicide and her father to […]

SEATTLE — The genetic vulnerability to psoriasis and related autoimmune diseases may be traceable to evolutionary pressure to resist ancient infections by retroviruses. The theory is […]

Lifetime skin cancer prevalence in sexual minority (SM) Americans varied by race, ethnicity, and individual sexual identity compared with that in heterosexual peers, according to a […]

As human microbiome studies proliferate, scientists are uncovering ways in which it can influence inflammation, chronic diseases, and even obesity. These findings are leading to promising […]

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization (WHO), has reclassified talc from “possibly” to “probably” carcinogenic and reclassified acrylonitrile […]