Scientists Have Identified the Lyme Disease Genes Responsible for Severe Symptoms
Lyme disease was first identified in 1975, in Lyme, Conn., but scientists still have more questions than answers about how...
Lyme disease was first identified in 1975, in Lyme, Conn., but scientists still have more questions than answers about how...
COVID-19 changed many things about medicine, not the least of which is how we think about do-it-yourself testing. Before the...
COVID-19 isn’t quite done with the world yet. Small surges of cases in the U.S., as well as upticks in...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today (Aug. 21) approved the first vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for...
Dr. Mandy Cohen is the new director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The former health...
If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing, it’s made us all more familiar with some of the important players...
It's a common ritual of summer: with the warm weather comes more outdoor activities, and more encounters with disease-spreading pathogens....
Treating depression is complex and time-consuming, since matching patients to the right drug treatment is a matter of trial and...
As popular as the latest drugs being touted for weight loss, including Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy, are on social media,...
Dr. Rochelle Walensky became director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2021, a fraught...
Soon after SARS-CoV-2 began its assault on the world, scientists began searching for clues about what, if any, factors made...
For genetic conditions like Duchenne muscular dystrophy, there is little doctors can do to slow or treat the condition other...
Advertisements for treatments for “low T,” or low testosterone levels in middle-aged and older men, have led to spikes in...
A panel of experts who advise the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed on June 9 that a late-stage...
For the second day in a row, the eastern U.S. was enveloped in a hazy beige smog that blocked the...
On May 23, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory warning about the impact that social media is...
Most Americans have already been treating COVID-19 as a non-crisis for months, as cases have declined thanks to immunity from...
COVID-19 has caused a public health crisis unlike any other in recent memory, but three years into the pandemic, there...
Probiotics have long been star ingredients in dairy foods, drinks, and supplements, promising to generate a better bacterial balance to...
Now that a Texas judge has ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval of the abortion pill,...