Finding out his name turned out to be the easy part. The tough part was navigating the blurred lines that separate consciousness from unconsciousness — and figuring out whether his smile was really a smile.
There is an ongoing debate about whether or not obesity is a disease. The debate raises other questions, such as, who gets to decide what is a disease and what isn't.
With a new gene therapy center almost completed, the medical center is providing hope for families who previously had little.
Humans and other mammals and birds would have been killed many times over by Chernobyl's radiation that plants in the most contaminated areas received. So why is plant life so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster?
CMU and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to create an autonomous trauma care system that fits in a backpack — or, as shown here, a folded stretcher.
Mathematical insights into how RNA helps viruses pull together their protein shells could guide future studies of viral behavior and function.
Jim Allison is an iconoclastic scientist who toiled in obscurity for years. Then he helped crack a mystery that may save millions of lives: Why doesn’t the immune system attack cancer?
The Oman Desert Marathon was my first ultra marathon. It was just over 100 miles (165km) across the baking sand. I didn’t really want to do it. It only came up as an idea when an editor from The Fi…
:extract_focal()/https%3A%2F%2Fpocket-syndicated-images.s3.amazonaws.com%2Farticles%2F330%2F1633123795_61577dc4563da.png)
The secret to ultimate fitness isn't all that complicated—just spend a month outside, hiking eight hours per day.
After multiple rare cancers have been diagnosed in Waycross, Georgia, the city grapples with a profound question: What if the industries that gave us life are killing us?
People who are able to take vaccines but refuse to do so are the moral equivalent of drunk drivers
A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs damaged by illness and injury
Doctors removed one-sixth of this boy’s brain — and what was left did something incredible
Discover a more intelligent approach for getting bigger, stronger, and leaner.
Joshua Mezrich has performed hundreds of kidney, liver and pancreas transplants. He shares stories from the operating room in his book, When Death Becomes Life.
It has to do with the powerful vagus nerve.
[caption id="attachment_78739" align="aligncenter" width="483"] Close-up of an Auzoux anatomic male manikin, made of hand-painted papier mâché, circa 18...
A $5,571 bill to sit in a waiting room, $238 eyedrops, and a $60 ibuprofen tell the story of how emergency room visits are squeezing patients.
Prior to 1976, the FDA did not regulate medical implants, and so shoddy and even deadly devices proliferated, inserted into Americans' body. When the FDA finally decided to regulate implants,…
Clinical and nonclinical staff at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital have improved patient care and raised staff morale at a very modest cost: 10 minutes a day and a special deck of cards. At the start of every shift, the team members get together for a brief “team-start.” Each team…
From trauma to arrhythmia, and back again.
Scientists are developing AI systems called deep neural nets that can read medical images and detect disease — with astonishing efficiency
From the thermometer’s invention onward, physicians have feared—incorrectly—that new technology would make their jobs obsolete
The thalamus has traditionally been viewed just as the brain’s sensory relay station. But it may also play an important role in higher-level cognition, MIT’s Michael Halassa explains in a Q&A.
The NJCAA does not have an age limit, so Daytona State College recruited three "non-traditional" students to its cross-country team.
After suffering a stroke, a woman was left blinded, only able to see movement.
In this exclusive excerpt from 'Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart,' world-renowned Houston surgeon Bud Frazier races to help an ailing patient by implanting a revolutionary device that may one day save millions of lives.
At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
Are we our faces? This poignant story explores that question.
The world record stands at 24 minutes 3 seconds. How much can it improve?
If you've ever broken a bone, chances are you remember just how inconvenient it was to have a heavy, itchy, not-so-hygienic cast. It's almost as bad as the broken bone itself! Tung-Jun Yang's proposal, called Cocoon, is an all-new type of cast that aims to be lighter, more…
The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is a network of tech-fueled anarchists taking on Big Pharma with DIY medicines.
An unusual transplant may revive tissues thought to be hopelessly damaged, including the heart and brain.
Martine Rothblatt wants to end transplant shortages with 3-D-printed lungs.
Cardiac arrest kills off parts of the heart. Once dead, the cells don’t recover. But scientists may have come up with a way to reverse this – and potentially save thousands of people.
Analgesic balm in a hexagonal jar, launched in Rangoon by the Aw brothers in 1924, was a staple of Chinese families’ medicine cabinets for a generation. Today, Tiger Balm products have fans around the world, including Lady Gaga
When Jahi McMath was declared brain-dead by the hospital, her family disagreed. Her case challenges the very nature of existence.
In Dallas, Parkland Hospital created an information-sharing network that gets the city’s most vulnerable citizens the care they need—before they show up in the emergency room.
The pandemic had some influence on the lives of everyone alive today. Donald Trump’s grandfather Friedrich died from...
Brain injury does not always result in an undesirable personality change, finds Christian Jarrett.
There’s an illusion that if you want something enough, even something as fantastical as avoiding death, you might just get it.
On the plight of environmental-illness refugees
Most new diseases have their origins in animals. So why aren’t we paying more attention to their health?
A fixture in bull riding events around the country, Dallas surgeon Tandy Freeman tends to much more than just concussions and broken bones.
80% of sleep apnea cases are undiagnosed, and undiagnosed sleep apnea causes $150B of wasted medical spend every year.
Despite recent progress, artificial wombs still face technical challenges. De-extinction efforts, of all things, are driving it forward. Just how much is anyone’s guess.
Nature - The World Health Organization has updated its list of most dangerous viruses and bacteria.