Medicine

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

Despite decades of doubt and dismissal, biochemist Katalin Karikó never gave up on the research that gave us mRNA COVID vaccines in record time

The Trump administration may undermine U.S. leadership and the international system of global health cooperation. Pandemic preparedness, resilient health systems and reproductive rights will suffer worldwide

In a new book, a science journalist recounts the story of a lifesaving treatment for infection that scientists broadly dismissed until recently