A drug widely used in HIV therapy has shown to stop disease progression in 25 percent of patients with fourth-line...

The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age. —Lewis Mumford, 1934 Forget long,...

People who eat two or more servings of avocado each week may lower their risk of cardiovascular disease compared to...

On Monday, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, announced that the agency will undergo...

As female representation rose dramatically in U.S. medical schools, the number of Black men in academic medicine stagnated or decreased,...

When you think about progressive brain disorders that cause dementia, you usually think of memory problems. But sometimes language problems...

A team of researchers has developed a genetic risk score for six common diseases, which could assist doctors and patients...

A new study finds that women who had experienced infertility had a 16 percent increased risk of heart failure compared...

Inside brain cells, errors in DNA can accumulate as we age. But in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, these errors —...

A recent CBS News/YouGov survey found that two-thirds of Americans want recreational marijuana use to be legal. Nearly 70 percent...