Worldwide, an estimated 40 million people live with HIV. Two-thirds of this group on the African continent. In 2023, more than 600,000 people died from HIV-related causes and 1.32 million were ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.

A decade ago, a clinical trial in the U.K. famously showed that children who were exposed to peanuts in the early months of ...

That fit people have a reduced risk of premature death from various diseases is a recurring result in many studies.

After all-night markups, two key House committees approved GOP budget legislation that would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from federal health programs over the next decade, mostly from the ...

A large case-control study from China found that people with Parkinson’s disease were significantly less likely to test ...

A phase 3 trial found that ubrogepant, given during the premonitory phase of migraine, improved common warning symptoms such ...

Becoming an organ donor has never been easier. Registration is available online when renewing a driver's license or, for iPhone users, through an app.

In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy by a team at Children's Hospital of ...

For decades, doctors and researchers have puzzled over a basic heart rhythm mystery: Why do women tend to have faster ...

An international study led by Paolo Fiorina from Boston Children's Hospital and in collaboration with researchers from University of Milan highlights the beneficial effect of inhibiting the death ...