What is the difference between a doctor of medicine (an M.D.) and a doctor of osteopathic medicine (a D.O.)? It’s a question many Americans may be asking after learning that Dr. Sean Conley, who...

Your lungs and airways need to be stretchy, sort of like balloons. Take a big breath, and they’ll open right up. Damaged lungs can’t open properly. Patients with asthma, idiopathic pulmonary...

Every year around this time, public health officials start warning about the approach of flu season. But this year is a little bit different thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, experts are warning about...

A team of researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro) and Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS) of the University of Barcelona has demonstrated that neurons can be generated from skin cells...

The scars that tell the story of our lives: From a childhood scalding to male breast cancer, six brave souls reveal the body blemishes that serve as a reminder of their past Almost two decades after major...

An interdisciplinary team of Dutch researchers has discovered that wasting syndrome, a severe byproduct of tuberculosis, is the same for all humans and animals studied. The discovery offers new opportunities...

A German shepherd in New York that had the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in a dog in the U.S. has died. Robert and Allison Mahoney of Staten Island told National Geographic that their 7-year-old shepherd,...

Scientists identify 21 drugs that show promise for treating COVID-19 – including four that might be used with remdesivir to combat the virus Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery...

The COVID-19 crisis has had a grave impact on jobs, wellbeing, mental health and the economy worldwide. But it has also prompted public expressions of hope—people have come together to sing on balconies...

Barely three months ago, the anti-malarial drug that President Donald Trump touted seemed like such a sure bet against COVID-19 that Susanna Naggie had a tough time setting up a national clinical trial...