Health

Scientists in Japan have identified a virus that selectively kills males — and it happens to be inheritable, creating generation upon generation of all females.The discovery, made in caterpillars and described Monday...

In a groundbreaking move that is set to redefine the world of dietary supplements, MAGISNAT is taking personalized nutrition to an entirely new level. The company is leveraging cutting-edge omics sciences to...

At Kaneshie Polyclinic, a health center in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Accra, the capital of Ghana, there is a rule. Every patient who walks through the door — a woman in labor,...

William E. Pelham Jr., a child psychologist who challenged how his field approached attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, arguing for a therapy-based regimen that used drugs like Ritalin and Adderall as...

The number of American babies who died before their first birthdays rose last year, significantly increasing the nation’s infant mortality rate for the first time in two decades, according to provisional figures...

A 58-year-old man with heart failure who received a new heart from a genetically modified pig died on Monday, nearly six weeks after receiving the pig organ, University of Maryland Medical Center...

If childhood obesity is an ‘epidemic,’ how far should doctors go to treat it?

Why It Matters: A disease with a toll that is difficult to imagine.An estimated 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease, most of whom have African ancestry. Sickle cell...

In medicine, the cautionary tales about the unintended effects of artificial intelligence are already legendary.There was the program meant to predict when patients would develop sepsis, a deadly bloodstream infection, that triggered...

Federal health officials are advising consumers to stop using more than two dozen over-the-counter eyedrops products because of a potential risk of eye infection that may lead to partial vision loss or...