The threat posed by plastic production, usage and disposal to human health will skyrocket in the coming years unless the ...

A late-breaking study drawing on more than 15 years of national outcomes data from the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database ...

When a car accident or athletic injury destroys more than 20% of a muscle's mass, the body faces a problem it often can't ...

A type of therapy that stimulates specific brain pathways with electromagnetic pulses combined with physical therapy significantly reduced overall disability in stroke survivors compared to survivors ...

Heart specialists at Mayo Clinic today presented new research at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting that ...

Breakthrough research presented at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting shows that additional lymph node evaluation is needed during surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to ...

Protein is having a moment, with federal guidelines significantly raising the recommended amount people should eat every day ...

Alcohol impairs the body's ability to deal with cold, said Dr. Abhi Mehrotra, a University of North Carolina emergency ...

There were only 10 reported cases of Guinea worm infections confined to three countries in 2025, a historic low announced ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a previously overlooked mediator in the body's response to life-threatening infections: hippuric acid, a metabolite produced when gut bacteria break ...

In 2023, more than half of all suicide deaths in the United States involved firearms. "Red flag" laws—also called Extreme ...

Since it was first detected in the U.S. in 2014, H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has jumped from wild birds ...