Health & Medicine

LONDON, July 17 — The Food Standards Agency, the non-ministerial department charged with protecting public health in relation to food across England,…

NEW YORK, July 17 — For patients facing a breast cancer diagnosis, the decision about chemotherapy has long been one of medicine’s…

WASHINGTON, July 17 — Tyler Morton’s first CT scan did not show the brain lesion that later appeared on a second CT…

MADISON, Wisconsin, July 17 — The genomic test Oncotype DX has fundamentally altered the strategic calculus of breast cancer treatment, shifting the…

LONDON, July 17 — The genomic test that changed how oncologists decide whether to give chemotherapy for early breast cancer now has…

LOS ANGELES, July 17 — On the seventh floor of a biotechnology office building here, Dr. Gary J. Peltz is closing in…

WASHINGTON, July 17 — A new market analysis projects that the global structural health monitoring industry will reach $8.6 billion by 2035,…

LOS ANGELES, July 17 — On the sixth floor of a modest research building near the UCLA campus, a small biotech company…

BOSTON, July 17 — On the ground at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a team of researchers has lost a published paper after…

ISLAMABAD, July 17 — For patients and their families navigating the often confusing world of medical technology, the word “printing” usually means…

NEW YORK, July 17 — A scientific discovery more than 15 years in the making is opening a fresh front in the…

LONDON, July 17 — On the ground, the world runs on caffeine. It is the most commonly consumed psychoactive substance globally, a…

TORONTO, July 16 — Frederick Banting died in a plane crash in Newfoundland in 1941, but the insulin he helped drag out…

WASHINGTON, July 16 — A strategic shift in the clinical approach to insomnia is underway, with cognitive behavioral therapy, not pills, now…

WASHINGTON, July 16 — The opioid epidemic, described by doctors and researchers as “one of the most devastating public health catastrophes of…

ISLAMABAD, July 16 — A major medical conference later this year is set to put a spotlight on a long-recognised but still…

CHICAGO, July 16 — The story of diabetes care includes the scientists who made key discoveries and the patients who now have…

ROME, July 16 — The shift is happening in plain sight. Cancer detection is moving from single-organ biopsies to a single blood…

WASHINGTON, July 16 — The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine, the global scientific and medical professional organization formerly known as the…

NEW YORK, July 16 — For the millions of families touched by Alzheimer’s disease, the science can feel impossibly distant. But behind…

BLOOMINGTON, July 15 — Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have published a study that cuts through the usual clinical…

INDIANAPOLIS, July 15 — A study published yesterday by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine is bringing new urgency to…

INDIANAPOLIS, July 15 — The shift in bowel cancer treatment is no longer just about detecting it early. A new study from…