The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer immunotherapy ...

Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, and humans. Despite 70 documented human cases, there are no known ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

Love has been the source of ceaseless fascination since antiquity. Artists have tried to capture its beauty and darkness in books, paintings, and songs. Behavioral scientists have explored love as a ...

At a glance: New study of nearly 2,000 former NFL players found that 34 percent think they have CTE, a condition it is not yet possible to confirm in a living person. Former players who believed they ...

But it’s just as important to augment disparities research with education and community-based efforts to pave the way for inclusive health care that respects and welcomes all patients, notes ...

For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However, artificial ...

Telemedicine has come to play an important role in patient care, but without prompt congressional action, it may no longer be an option for millions of Americans. If allowed to expire at the end of ...

In a first-of-its-kind medical procedure, Harvard Medical School physician-scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human. While many ...

At a glance:One of the most touted promises of medical artificial intelligence tools is their ability to augment human clinicians’ performance by helping them interpret images such as X-rays and CT ...

Should consumers have access to medical advice from AI? The real question, panelists agreed, is not whether patients should have access to AI — they should and already do — but how to ensure that AI ...

This is a story about how science can fuel hope to drive away despair. It’s about an ambitious project that, over the past decade, has brought new, patient-friendly treatments to some of the places ...