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 ...

Interest is booming in sports medicine and interventional cardiology, while fewer doctors are specializing in orthopedic surgery and radiology. The number of women doctors continues to grow and they ...

The AAMC has been closely tracking developments in National Institutes of Health (NIH) extramural funding and in Oct. 2026 published Tracking Two Years of Change in NIH Funding, which draws from the ...

An art museum isn’t traditionally associated with medical school. But several medical schools are offering courses that give students a chance to refine their observation skills, and in turn their ...

They found their way to medical school along circuitous paths, propelled by life experiences their younger classmates can only imagine. 2nd Lt. Thomas O’Leary, 41, was an Army combat medic searching ...

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 ...

Mary Norton, MD, advises her pregnant patients to think carefully about whether they want to have prenatal cell-free DNA screening, also commonly known as noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT). The ...

On what had been a happy day in February 2014, 13-year-old DeAndre Knox was attending a birthday party at a friend’s home in Indianapolis when a stray bullet ripped through a window and struck him in ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on climate change and health. Other articles in this series include stories on how extreme heat affects health, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas ...

The connection between molecules and madness. Preventing another catastrophe like the COVID-19 pandemic. Health inequities among Black pregnant people. Gene sequencing that helped restore vision to a ...

Three years ago, a patient grappling with suicidal thoughts came to the University of North Carolina (UNC) Medical Center’s emergency department in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for help. Her parents ...