A new journal has arrived at a moment when the science of information has quietly become the operating system of modern ...

When a blood clot chokes off the supply of oxygen and glucose to a region of the brain, the neurons caught in the ischemic ...

A woman’s reproductive history may be written into the very architecture of her breast tissue, long before any disease ...

For the millions of people living with early-stage chronic kidney disease, the countdown to dialysis is one of medicine’s most feared trajectories. Now, one of the largest investigations ever c ...

A single stressful event in adulthood can leave a very different mark on the brain depending on whether the individual is male or female, and depending on whether the brain was already sensitized by ...

Gastric cancer remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and clinicians have long struggled to explain why patients with seemingly similar tumors can follow dramatically different c ...

When older patients take a dozen or more medications each day, clinicians need tools that tell them which drugs are doing ...

For decades, coaches and lifters have measured strength with a simple piece of arithmetic: divide the weight on the bar by the athlete’s bodyweight, and compare the result against a fixed milestone. T ...

When Sir Bernard Isaacs, one of the founding fathers of modern geriatric medicine, introduced his famous concept of the ...

Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being asked to do something that sounds paradoxical: forget. As regulators ...

A rare congenital muscle disease that robs patients of strength from childhood has long lacked meaningful treatment options, ...

A small molecule extracted from a Brazilian wildflower has emerged as a surprising new weapon in the fight against antibiotic ...