A construction team working on a highway expansion in Maryland in 1979 discovered human remains on the grounds of an 18th-century ironworks. Eventually, archaeologists uncovered 35...
The National Institutes of Health has selected Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo as the new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Marrazzo, who is...
Artificial intelligence-powered ultrasounds are now one step closer to becoming part of routine prenatal care. Sonio Detect, an AI-powered ultrasound scanning technology, has become the first...
A University of Connecticut scientist has reportedly identified a key mechanism in Parkinson’s disease research. UConn Health, a branch of the university, said Tuesday that assistant...
Paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled the fossilized bones of one of the strangest whales in history. The 39-million-year-old leviathan, called Perucetus, may have weighed about 200 tons,...
From my CT scan, I expected a brush with mortality — the opportunity to see the forbidden land of my own guts, to contemplate their eventual...
Doctors have long understood that sucrose intolerance, also known as Congenital Sucrase-Isomaltase Deficiency (CSID), is a genetic condition in which afflicted individuals have extreme GI-discomfort whenever...
The average American spends nearly seven hours a day looking at screens, reports have shown — and all of that phone, tablet and computer gazing can...
Who doesn’t love nurses? They put us at ease when we’re anxious or nervous, explain complicated health information in terms we can understand, guide us through...
For more than five million women in the U.S., getting maternity care is difficult or impossible. More than one-third (36%) of U.S. counties are considered “maternity...