Health & Medicine

ROME, July 10 — The lymphatic system, a network of vessels and organs that defends the body against infection, operates through a…

ROME, July 10 — For years, the story of immunity has been told through the lens of vaccines and antibodies — the…

MANILA, July 10 — The story of how humanity learned to fight disease is a long one, and for families across Asia,…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — The human immune system operates as a coordinated network of cells, tissues, and organs that defends the body…

NEW YORK, July 10 — Dr. Nir Barzilai, an Israeli-American geneticist, has spent decades researching aging as a target in biomedical research.…

NEW YORK, July 10 — The global anti-aging market, valued at $191.5 billion in 2023, continues to expand as the world’s population…

LONDON, July 10 — Aubrey de Grey, the British biomedical gerontologist whose radical vision of defeating aging has made him a polarizing…

NEW YORK, July 10 — The most ambitious attempt yet to prove that a cheap generic drug can slow human ageing is…

BOSTON, July 10 — The longevity research community is confronting a widening credibility gap, and Dr. David Sinclair, the Harvard Medical School…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — A compound first isolated from the soil of a remote Pacific island more than five decades ago is…

BATON ROUGE, July 10 — A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health remains the most rigorous human test of…

LONDON, July 10 — The technical reality of treating Alzheimer’s disease has shifted quietly but decisively. Two monoclonal antibody therapies — lecanemab…

MANILA, July 10 — For millions of families across Asia and around the world, the shadow of Alzheimer’s disease has long been…

LONDON, July 10 — The detail that matters in the story of Katalin Karikó is not the Nobel Prize, nor the 95%…

ROME, July 10 — The story of messenger RNA vaccines begins not in a pandemic, but in a laboratory mouse. In 1990,…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — The strategic calculus of cancer treatment is shifting, and with it comes a new set of battlefield risks…

LONDON, July 10 — Two centuries ago, an English country doctor performed a single experiment that would alter the strategic calculus of…

WASHINGTON, July 10 — The first checkpoint inhibitor landed in March 2011, a drug called ipilimumab, approved for melanoma. Since then, the…

ROME, July 10 — The record of vaccination begins with a single act in 1796, when English physician Edward Jenner used material…

HOUSTON, July 10 — The man who taught the immune system to fight cancer has spent the better part of three decades…