Scientists put their stamps on medical-science history by naming their discoveries. Those names have serious scientific implications.

Can more testosterone help people who do not have low levels? Some patients want it, physicians say it sometimes works, and ...

Over the past several years, COVID-19 has surged twice a year — once in the winter and once in the late summer. This pattern seems to be repeating in 2026. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

The use of artificial intelligence in health care has skyrocketed in the past few years, from taking visit notes to summarizing medical research to reading imaging and helping make diagnoses. This ...

Bigger muscles. Speedier injury healing. A longer life. Whatever the health or fitness concern, there’s probably a peptide purported to address it. Indeed, the use of these injectable substances, many ...

Patients arrive in the emergency department (ED) doubled over in pain and retching uncontrollably, a brew of symptoms physicians have nicknamed “scromiting” — a combination of screaming and vomiting.

As the population ages and patients present with more complex health conditions, the phenomenon of polypharmacy — defined as the regular use of five or more medications by older adults ­— has become ...

The federal government is nearly halfway through the 12-month fiscal year (FY) that began on Oct. 1, 2025. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget of $47.2 billion, ...

In January the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made significant changes to the nation’s childhood vaccination schedule. For ...

When the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was first introduced in 2006, researchers and clinicians were hopeful that they would finally see a decline in cases of HPV-related cancers. In 2008, more ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on Jan. 26 with new statistics on the flu season thus far. At least 19 million Americans have come down with the flu — and 10,000, including 44 children, have ...

For the seventh year in a row, the number of medical residents grew, up by about 4,000 in 2024-25, for a total of 163,189 residents, according to the AAMC’s annual Report on Residents. The AAMC ...