Nearly 200 new medical and dental students donned white coats and celebrated the start of their educational journeys at ...

A few limited clinical trials of lithium for Alzheimer’s disease have shown some efficacy, but the lithium compounds they ...

Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, and humans. Despite 70 documented human cases, there are no known ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

The ubiquity of love across societies and its endurance across millennia is likely rooted in something basic and primal to human nature, Schwartz and Olds say. While it’s unclear whether being head ...

At a glance: Biochemical analyses provide an answer to the question of how the gut bacterium Morganella morganii might contribute to some cases of major depressive disorder. Incorporation of an ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority people (LGBTQ+), are at greater risk of dying by suicide, of cardiovascular disease, and of a cascading list of other ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have designed a versatile, ChatGPT-like AI model capable of performing an array of diagnostic tasks across multiple forms of cancers. The new AI system, described ...

The composition of the gut microbiome may affect the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, according to the largest and most ethnically and geographically comprehensive study of its kind to date.

How to find the right balance Some of the survey results are nuanced, the authors note, and should not be taken as unqualified public support or rejection of polygenic embryo screening. “These ...

At a glance: Revealing the inner workings of drug-resistant bacteria is informing development of much-needed new antibiotics. Experimental drug now in clinical trials takes a new approach to defeating ...

Menopause, the time that marks the end of a female’s menstrual cycles, is a significant transition that comes with aging. This change has health effects, but researchers don’t properly consider it in ...