Seniors admitted to the hospital intensive care unit were more likely to die or sharply decline soon after their release depending on how well they functioned beforehand, according to a new study...
Can a five-minute eye-tracking test warn of disease to come?
High-tech pedometers do a decent job of counting steps accurately. Dina Fine Maron reports.
M.I.T.’s Robert Langer is being recognized for his efforts to fight cancer and other diseases by melding nanoscale engineering with science and medicine
Today, up to 25 percent of people in the U.S. are living with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according to the American Liver Foundation.
Action in the U.K. Parliament is raising questions about the future of a new reproductive technique in America
The virus is squeezing finances in affected communities—and diverting funds and resources from other health care priorities
If a headache is a kid's only symptom after minor blunt head trauma, it poses little risk of a clinically important brain injury, according to a new post-hoc analysis
White House’s move to develop customized care prompts worries about data security and informed consent
Doctors say that the "three-parent" IVF technique will prevent some inherited incurable diseases but critics fear designer babies
The ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S., which has spread to 14 states, has provoked a rising vilification of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children.
The evaluation is one of several prognostic tests undergoing studies
Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Scientific American Editor in-Chief Mariette DiChristina talk about the foundation set forth in its recently released annual letter...
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: January 30, 1915 X-rays were used for medical operations within a couple of months after they were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen in late 1895...
By Toni Clarke and Sharon Begley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has proposed analyzing genetic information from more than 1 million American volunteers as part of a new initiative to understand human disease and develop medicines targeted to an individual's genetic make-up...
Hypothermia is common among patients during the first hour of anesthesia, despite the use of forced air warming to maintain core temperature, a study in nearly 60,000 surgical patients shows...
The economic embargo is still in place, so warming connections between the countries can only take biomedicine so far, scientists say
A drug-resistant superbug infected 32 people at a Seattle hospital over a two-year period, with the bacteria spreading through medical scopes that had been cleaned to the manufacturer's recommendation...
President Barack Obama's sixth State of the Union address, his first before a Republican-led legislature, was studded this evening with references to science and technology amidst talk of middle class tax cuts, thawing U.S...
A hospital looks to the four-legged to pad its bottom line while improving care for our furry companions
