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WASHINGTON — A drug lowers blood pressure. The question that has dogged biomedical researchers for years: is it the drug itself, or…

More than half a million people in the UK are living with irritable bowel disease. Every year, 25,000 more are diagnosed with…

Health systems are putting money into remote patient monitoring. That is the real story behind Cadence’s new $100 million funding round. Spark…

The gap between knowing a drug works and knowing why has cost medicine dearly. Countless therapies have passed clinical trials only to…

University of Florida researchers have linked a common genetic quirk — the one that turns faces red after a glass of wine…

Health systems are putting real money behind remote patient monitoring. That is the headline from Cadence’s $100 million Series C raise, led…

A faulty gene that leaves one in three East Asians with a red face after drinking may also be quietly priming their…

Let’s start with a number: most people apply between a quarter and a half of the sunscreen they actually need. That is…

NEW YORK — It is not that people skip sunscreen. They just use far too little of it. The gap between the…

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia is watching a quiet shift in how it fights two growing killers. Type-2 diabetes and hypertension are rising…

Australia’s H5N1 case: A long-feared arrival on the continent CANBERRA — For years, public health officials watched the global spread of H5N1…

One man dies from prostate cancer every 45 minutes in the UK. That statistic, from Prostate Cancer UK, is the cold arithmetic…

BOSTON — Runners might notice something odd about their feet long before a blister forms: the hair on their toes starts thinning…

Jeremy Clarkson told his farm team he had known since May. The season five finale of Clarkson’s Farm aired that knowledge —…

Immigrants arriving in Israel typically pick a health fund within days of landing. They often do it without knowing what they are…

BOSTON — The hair on your toes might say more about your circulation than your grooming habits. And for some people, losing…

Ocular Therapeutix has spent years chasing a wet AMD treatment that could stretch the time between injections from months to something closer…

It started as a second opinion. Now it is a billion-dollar industry, growing so fast that the numbers alone tell the story.…

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously hard to treat. Tumors hide deep in the abdomen, often diagnosed late. Surgery is brutal. Chemotherapy has limits.…

Start with one number: 34.57. That is the projected value, in billions of U.S. dollars, of the global medical second opinion market…