Patients with implanted medical devices like orthopedic joint replacements, pacemakers, and artificial heart valves run a ...

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month's end. These ...

Life-saving stem cell transplants have been limited by the need to perfectly match the blood types of donors and recipients, ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of psychological therapies for perinatal depression, the ...

In the absence of much federal action, states have enacted dozens of laws this year to lower prescription drug costs for ...

A once-rare meat allergy caused by tick bites is dramatically increasing across the United States, researchers say.

Digital health technologies give health and aged care systems the opportunity to deliver cost savings, efficiencies, stronger ...

Because researchers have made such striking progress in developing drugs to treat neuromuscular diseases, Scott Delp, Ph.D., ...

Thousands of U.S. kids each year collapse from cardiac arrest and need CPR to save their lives. But CPR must start for them in half the time required for adults, according to results presented at the ...

Stanford University has unveiled a ureteroscopy-compatible device that magnetizes and retrieves kidney stone fragments with a ...

A new report published in the journal JAMA proposes a range of initiatives to substantially reduce the harm caused by firearm ...

Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply—and can contribute to ...