A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.

You’re not supposed to be able to buy the world’s most powerful weight-loss drug, but some people have found a way.

Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease

The disease once guaranteed an early death—but a new treatment has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?

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Silica gel packets seem like the only thing keeping our packaged food crispy and our belongings free of mildew. How on earth did they all get here?

Her father tells her story.

Why did this coronavirus change faster than scientists expected?

Arthur made my childhood neighborhood magical. Now both are gone.

Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease

Two couples in California discovered they were raising each other’s genetic children. Should they switch their girls?

"I've always liked to think of myself as a brain floating through space...[but] our physical condition constrains and expands the way we think about ourselves."

"I've always liked to think of myself as a brain floating through space...[but] our physical condition constrains and expands the way we think about ourselves."

Americans need to get off the tidiness treadmill.

Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember.

Some farmers can no longer even touch or be near their cattle and sheep.  

A scientist in Arkansas couldn’t get her experiments to work. Then others started saying the same thing.

In Idaho and other states, draconian laws are forcing physicians to ignore their training and put patients’ lives at risk.

Omalizumab seems to be a useful therapeutic option to control mast cell-mediator symptoms and displays a favorable safety profile.

The first face transplant to also include an eyeball was a surgical coup — but restoring vision remains a challenge. The first face transplant to also include an eyeball was a surgical coup — but rest...

Dolphin ecologist Tadamichi Morisaka discusses common dolphin behaviours that could explain the encounters with people. Dolphin ecologist Tadamichi Morisaka discusses common dolphin behaviours that co...

The much-hyped technology for editing genes has fulfilled one of its biggest promises.

A study of bones held in a Cleveland museum reveals a new side to the pandemic’s story—and a new way to think about pandemics to come.