What exactly is a disease?

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.

UT Southwestern’s Cutting-Edge Battle Against Rare, Fatal Childhood Disease

With a new gene therapy center almost completed, the medical center is providing hope for families who previously had little.

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Why plants don’t die from cancer

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?

Pitt and CMU To Create Autonomous Robotic Trauma Care System

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.

The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses | Quanta Magazine

Mathematical insights into how RNA helps viruses pull together their protein shells could guide future studies of viral behavior and function.

Meet the Carousing Texan Who Won a Nobel Prize

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?

Why Would Anyone Choose to Run 100 Miles Through the Desert?

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…

This Is What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike

The secret to ultimate fitness isn't all that complicated—just spend a month outside, hiking eight hours per day.

Why are so many people getting rare cancers in this small Georgia town?

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?

Opting Out of Vaccines Should Opt You Out of American Society

People who are able to take vaccines but refuse to do so are the moral equivalent of drunk drivers

A Drug Shows an Astonishing Ability to Regenerate Damaged Hearts and Other Body Parts

A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs damaged by illness and injury

The Brain That Remade Itself

Doctors removed one-sixth of this boy’s brain — and what was left did something incredible

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A Surgeon Reflects On Death, Life And The 'Incredible Gift' Of Organ Transp

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.

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What Deep Breathing Does to Your Body

It has to do with the powerful vagus nerve.

Beautiful But Deadly: The Creepiest Devices From Medicine’s Grisly, Leech-F

[caption id="attachment_78739" align="aligncenter" width="483"] Close-up of an Auzoux anatomic male manikin, made of hand-painted papier mâché, circa 18...

I read 1,182 emergency room bills this year. Here’s what I learned.

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.

The Bleeding Edge: a terrifying, enraging look at the corrupt, deadly world

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,…

How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

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…

A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story - Issue 64: The Unseen

From trauma to arrhythmia, and back again.

Truly, neurally, deeply

Scientists are developing AI systems called deep neural nets that can read medical images and detect disease — with astonishing efficiency

Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier

From the thermometer’s invention onward, physicians have feared—incorrectly—that new technology would make their jobs obsolete

A long-overlooked brain region may be key to complex thought

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.

A college cross-country team needed runners. It recruited three moms over 4

The NJCAA does not have an age limit, so Daytona State College recruited three "non-traditional" students to its cross-country team.

Rare Condition Means Blind Woman Can Only See Moving Objects

After suffering a stroke, a woman was left blinded, only able to see movement.

The High-Stakes Race to Create the World's First Artificial Heart – Texas M

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.

How a Transplanted Face Transformed a Young Woman’s Life

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.

An Unprecedented Look at a Young Woman’s Face Transplant

Are we our faces? This poignant story explores that question.

What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes (Yeah, It’s a Thing) | WIR

The world record stands at 24 minutes 3 seconds. How much can it improve?

A Cast That Doesn’t Suck as Much

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…

Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is a network of tech-fueled anarchists taking on Big Pharma with DIY medicines.

the healing edge: Dying Organs Restored to Life in Novel Experiments

An unusual transplant may revive tissues thought to be hopelessly damaged, including the heart and brain.

Inside the effort to print lungs and breathe life into them with stem cells

Martine Rothblatt wants to end transplant shortages with 3-D-printed lungs.

The hearts coming back from the dead

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.

'Heroin(e)': The Women Fighting Addiction In Appalachia : NPR

An Oscar-nominated documentary short explores the country's opioid crisis through the heroism of women in Huntington, W.Va. — women like fire chief Jan Rader and drug court judge Patricia Keller.

The Tiger Balm story: how ointment for every ailment was created, fell out

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

What Does It Mean to Die?

When Jahi McMath was declared brain-dead by the hospital, her family disagreed. Her case challenges the very nature of existence.

The ‘Frequent Flier’ Program That Grounded a Hospital’s Soaring Costs - POL

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.

Gavin Francis · The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu

The pandemic had some influence on the lives of everyone alive today. Donald Trump’s grandfather Friedrich died from...

When personalities go from bad to good

Brain injury does not always result in an undesirable personality change, finds Christian Jarrett.

Doctors: Christmas in the I.C.U.

There’s an illusion that if you want something enough, even something as fantastical as avoiding death, you might just get it.

The Fever Called Living by Evan Malmgren

On the plight of environmental-­illness refugees

The Veterinarians Preventing the Next Pandemic

Most new diseases have their origins in animals. So why aren’t we paying more attention to their health?

A Rodeo Doctor Fixes Much More Than Broken Bones

A fixture in bull riding events around the country, Dallas surgeon Tandy Freeman tends to much more than just concussions and broken bones.

How Apple Watch sleep apnea detection works and why it matters | Empirical Health

80% of sleep apnea cases are undiagnosed, and undiagnosed sleep apnea causes $150B of wasted medical spend every year.

To Be Born in a Bag

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.

The pathogens that could spark the next pandemic

Nature - The World Health Organization has updated its list of most dangerous viruses and bacteria.