Health & Medicine

MANILA, July 8 — A tiny creature living in the icy waters off Antarctica could one day offer new hope in the…

ROME, July 8 — Against this backdrop of a frozen continent where life clings to the edges of survival, scientists have discovered…

WASHINGTON, July 8 — A marine organism collected during an Antarctic expedition has been found to contain compounds with anti-melanoma properties, according…

NEW YORK, July 8 — 1%. That figure that matters: melanoma accounts for about 1% of all skin cancers, yet it causes…

ANTARCTICA, July 8 — A marine organism discovered during a scientific expedition to Antarctica is now being studied as a potential new…

NEW YORK, July 8 — James P. Allison, the immunologist who cracked the code on how to release the immune system’s brakes…

ISLAMABAD, July 8 — As the global population ages, researchers are paying closer attention to a natural biological process that leaves older…

NEW YORK, July 8 — The idea that your own body could be trained to hunt down and kill cancer has been…

NEW DELHI, July 8 — For a continent that has long shouldered a disproportionate share of the global disease burden, the story…

MANILA, July 8 — The human body’s first line of defense against infection is a remarkable system that works around the clock,…

ROME, July 8 — A new filing from immunology researchers outlines the architecture of the human immune system as a coordinated network…

LONDON, July 8 — The biological clock may be more than a metaphor. For over a decade, researchers have been building tools…

NEW YORK, July 8 — The calculus around aging research is shifting. Two drugs, one a decades-old diabetes staple and the other…

WASHINGTON, July 8 — For nearly a century, scientists have been chasing a tantalizing question: can eating less help us live longer?…

BUDAPEST, July 8 — On a quiet street in Szeged, the kind of place where a woman in a lab coat might…

TOKYO, July 8 — The story of Eisai, the Japanese pharmaceutical company that brought the Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab to market, is not…

GENEVA, July 8 — The World Health Organization estimates that immunization prevents 2-3 million deaths every year from diseases including diphtheria, tetanus,…

ISLAMABAD, July 8 — For decades, the sticky clumps of protein that build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients have been…

WASHINGTON — For the millions of American families touched by Alzheimer’s disease, the past few years have brought something that once felt…

LONDON — The scene outside the Wellcome Collection on Euston Road this morning was quiet, a stark contrast to the storm that…

NEW YORK, July 8 — 1.8 million children. That is the figure that matters from the 1954 field trial of Jonas Salk’s…