Clinical trials demonstrate how effective vaccines are individually, but the real world shows how effective they are at a population level.
Women's health pioneer Phyllis Greenberger's 30-year career was recently honored with the 2021 Perennial Hero Award. We sat down with her to hear more about her impressive accomplishments.
At-home DNA test kits can give you a general overview on ailments you may be at risk for, but what happens to your sample once you send an at-home DNA test kit to the lab?
Hounsfield's innovation transformed medicine. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979 and was knighted by the Queen in 1981.
Study finds that women in Ph.D STEM programs are often told they have to choose between family and career
Gene therapy uses our genomic makeup to treat or prevent disease
Some doctors appreciate seeing records of home-monitored blood pressure, exercise and the like between visits, others view the data as more of a burden than an asset
During the pandemic, women researchers bore the disproportionate burden of caregiving responsibilities, forcing a drop in their productivity. Research suggests the hit to women's reputations and their scientific impacts may set female scientists back by years, if not decades.
Bacteria's adaptation to survive current antibiotics, or antibiotic resistance, is on the rise
What might seem like small changes, like a degree of warming, can have big consequences.
One potential way to make opioids less addictive is to make them target injured tissue rather than the healthy brain
The varying responses to a deadly smallpox outbreak 300 years ago provide an eerily prescient object lesson for today's world, similarly devastated by a virus and divided over vaccination
Each side is just as likely to play mental gymnastics when it comes to justifying their bad behavior
My daughter has severe eczema and life-threatening food allergies. Keeping her safe is a family affair.