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 ...

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

Evolution is a work in progress, so it’s hardly surprising that some of the features it has built into the human body are still far from optimal. And of all those features, one of the hardest to ...

In 2019, Debra Halsch was diagnosed with smoldering multiple myeloma, a rare blood and bone marrow disorder that can develop into a type of blood cancer. Her doctors recommended chemotherapy, she said ...

Officials increasingly treat woodsmoke pollution as a public health and environmental justice issue, despite opposition.

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 ...