The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer immunotherapy ...

Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, and humans. Despite 70 documented human cases, there are no known ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

The ubiquity of love across societies and its endurance across millennia is likely rooted in something basic and primal to human nature, Schwartz and Olds say. While it’s unclear whether being head ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority people (LGBTQ+), are at greater risk of dying by suicide, of cardiovascular disease, and of a cascading list of other ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have designed a versatile, ChatGPT-like AI model capable of performing an array of diagnostic tasks across multiple forms of cancers. The new AI system, described ...

Study shows AI improves performance for some radiologists but worsens it for others. Understanding who might benefit from AI and who would not is critical for designing tools that boost human ...

Menopause, the time that marks the end of a female’s menstrual cycles, is a significant transition that comes with aging. This change has health effects, but researchers don’t properly consider it in ...

Patients are more likely to fall, get new infections, or experience other forms of harm during their stay in a hospital after it is acquired by a private equity firm, according to a new study led by ...

During quiet waking, brain activity in mice suggests the animals are daydreaming about a recent image. Having daydreams about a recently viewed image predicted how the brain would respond to the image ...

Pursuing Three Gene Therapies for Rare Inherited Disease Researchers hope at least one will treat progressive blindness caused by Usher syndrome type 1F ...

An AI tool identified people at the highest risk for pancreatic cancer up to three years before actual diagnosis.