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In a discovery that could shift labor and delivery practices around the world, researchers at Michigan State University have ...

Centenary Institute researchers have uncovered new genetic causes of inherited heart conditions, providing families with ...

Women’s midlife health is having a long-overdue moment. As social media influencers push perimenopause wonder cures with unprecedented fervor, Boston’s medical community is meanwhile quietly making ...

This story was produced by Cristal Dyer and distributed by Next Net. 86% of global clinical trials fail to meet their patient recruitment goals on time, according to a 2024 review in Digital Health, ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died at 84, survived multiple heart attacks, surgeries, and a transplant, illustrating ...

Can you believe there was a time when doctors didn't wash their hands between performing an autopsy and delivering a baby? Modern medicine has taken a long time to get to where it is today, with some ...

In the early 1800s, a young American dentist named William Morton observed whenever small animals inhaled sulfuric ether, they passed out and became unresponsive. This marked the beginning of the end ...

That strange ritual your great-grandmother swore by for staying healthy might have seemed like pure superstition, but it could have been based on legitimate medical principles that science didn’t ...

The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell hosted its 13th annual Medical Student Research Week November 4-8. Research Week is facilitated by the Office of Medical Student ...

Historians regard ancient Egypt as the origin of medical practice. Was the emergence of physicians in Egypt necessitated by the ten plagues perhaps? No one knows for sure. The earliest medical texts ...