There's a new reason to roll up your sleeve for the shingles vaccine. A new study is linking the disease to serious long-term ...

For many medical students, the earliest years of training are heavy on textbooks and light on real patient contact. But a new ...

Doctors encounter death and dying significantly more than most people. It's the price of saving lives and helping people.

In a recent commentary in Rhode Island Current, Robert Hackey (who has trained many of Rhode Island’s best health policy ...

Abstaining from alcohol for just one month as part of 'Dry January' can offer meaningful physical and psychological ...

Large language models frequently misrepresent verbal risk terms used in medicine, potentially amplifying patient misunderstandings and diverging from established clinical definitions, according to a ...

Most COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is rooted in concerns that can be addressed and effectively reduced over time, according to a ...

People who slimmed down on GLP-1s found their weight creeping back up. In fact, people would regain 21.8 pounds within a year ...

A new Mayo Clinic study finds nearly three-quarters of women ages 45 to 60 surveyed experience menopause symptoms that ...

The research has implications for NASA’s goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.

Pioneering research led by Brazilians describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant.

Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% ...