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Popular demand for an unproved surgical treatment for multiple sclerosis shows the growing power of social media to shape medical practice—for good and ill
The Information Age has patients tuned in and geared up to try alternative and off-label therapies on their own terms, forcing doctors and scientists to change the game
A proof of concept treatment using RNA interference protects monkeys against the deadly virus, even after exposure
A study suggests bacteria-eating fish in the Baltic Sea might expose humans to dangerous levels of a neurotoxin, but scientists argue over the significance of the finding
Policies that ban men who have sex with men from donating blood no longer make sense, researchers say
Searching for flu symptoms online is a reasonable proxy for actually having them
Defining obesity in children and recalibrating the caloric needs of overweight kids are key steps in shrinking the epidemic, researchers say
The genetic cause of mirror movements reveals how the nervous system is wired during development
Finding individual differences in tumors is key to treating the right patient with the right medicine at the right time, researchers say
A new study shows stress hormones make it easier for malignant tumors to grow and spread
A new treatment prevents type 1 diabetes in mice by turning the immune system on itself
They say dogs look like their owners. Now scientists are uncovering the genes that give dogs--and humans--their traits
15 years after a gene defect was found to increase the risk of schizophrenia 30-fold, scientists have figured out how it might cause the brain disorder's debilitating symptoms
With a 35 percent nonresponse rate in 2000 and a projected cost of $14.5 billion for 2010, some demographers are looking for better ways to collect demographic data
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