The research hospital cares for people with rare or life-threatening diseases. This year, patient numbers plummeted.

Researchers typically ask why people get cancer. What if they studied why some survive — or never develop the disease?

Companies have scant financial incentive to develop new antibiotics. Will the NIH continue to support relevant research?

As the weather agency struggles to maintain forecasting, startups are launching more tech to gather critical data.

In 2009, the agency concluded climate change endangers humans and the environment. Now, Lee Zeldin plans to reverse course.

As more people become aware of high exposures to PFAS, blood tests and clear medical advice can be difficult to find.

The agency's new drug czar wants to reanalyze risk-benefit data on ingestible fluoride, which is recommended for many ...

Two years ago, at a Stop & Shop in Rhode Island, the Danish neuroscientist and physician Henriette Edemann-Callesen visited an aisle stocked with sleep aids containing melatonin. She looked around in ...

As water becomes increasingly scarce in the drought-stricken Southwest, so does competition for the resource. This worries users of New Mexico’s acequias, which research shows could help offset some ...

Digital sequence information has radically changed the way researchers look at the world’s genetic resources.

In the two decades since Second Chance marked a genetic engineering milestone, cattle have secured a place on the front lines of biotechnology research. Today, scientists around the world are using ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...