Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy, affecting about 1 in 8,000 people.

Over the past few decades, advances in hematology have illuminated how a delicate balance between stem cell self-renewal and ...

South Carolina health officials say a measles outbreak is growing amid holiday travel and low vaccination rates, and they ...

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism's cause—a ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is notoriously difficult to treat due to its aggressive nature and limited prognostic ...

It may feel like you are surrounded by sniffles and coughs, but flu season activity is still low in many parts of the U.S.

Europe calls for decisive action to transform how Europe monitors noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Developed jointly by Joint ...

Poo anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they're all terms for what's medically known as parcopresis or difficulty ...

A decade ago, a group of scientists had the literally brilliant idea to use bioluminescent light to visualize brain activity.

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...