Medical Technology

New smart phone apps that purport to assess patients' skin lesions as cancer or not are unreliable, according to a new study. Katherine Harmon reports

An analysis of pills recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Italy reveals them to contain zinc compounds that were probably used as eye medication. Sophie Bushwick reports

Lab-grown nerve fibers could help a battered body heal itself

An attractive new method of deep-brain stimulation could solve that therapy's trickiest problems

Among the oldest type of drug in the medical arsenal, new antivenoms are being developed by researchers in Mexico, who have become global leaders in creating drugs to treat poisonous bites

Gene therapy, once off to a rocky start, transforms medicine by getting at the root cause of many diseases

A new way to link artificial arms and hands to the nervous system could allow the brain to control prostheses as smoothly as if they were natural limbs

A Russian procedure developed in the 1950s gave those with crippling disabilities hope--if they could handle the pain

A move to lengthen limbs internally rather than via an external scaffold could reduce the effects of painful treatments, especially among younger patients

A new study marks a step toward stem cell treatment of infertility

Unapproved procedures and skin care products endanger consumers and clinical research