Medicine

Proposed cuts to Medicaid could undo advances in treatment for opioid use disorders, risking more overdoses, deaths and stress on the U.S. health system

Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

A Chinese medical textbook published in 1511 led to a novel about an all-but-forgotten female doctor who practiced during the Ming Dynasty

Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer

Marthe Gautier speaks out about how she found the genetic cause of Down syndrome

“Laboratories would literally go dark,” says a medical research insider, if Trump administration cuts to NIH funding go through. Patients will suffer from lost medical advances, he tells Scientific American

It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down syndrome

The nonaddictive painkiller suzetrigine (Journavx) is as effective for acute pain as a common opioid treatment

President Trump has placed an indefinite suspension on research grant reviews and travel at the National Institutes of Health and appears to have erased diversity programming pages at the agency’s website

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes an approach that looks at how excess body fat affects health

Supreme Court arguments over trans health care makes plain how badly we need personalized health care in all of medicine