The prevalence of kidney stones has doubled in the past 30 years. Academic researchers are searching for better solutions for ...

Bigger muscles. Speedier injury healing. A longer life. Whatever the health or fitness concern, there’s probably a peptide purported to address it. Indeed, the use of these injectable substances, many ...

For Joel Bervell, MD, improving health starts with meeting people where they are — online. With more than 2 million followers across his social media channels and with a reach of 15 million viewers ...

Every morning at 5 a.m., Christa Foss, 42, a second-year anesthesia resident at Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, settles into the driver’s seat of her ...

Skin cancer cases in the United States more than tripled from 1975 to 2021, despite technological advances in sunscreens and public awareness of the risks of sun exposure. In Canada, melanoma — the ...

The federal government is nearly halfway through the 12-month fiscal year (FY) that began on Oct. 1, 2025. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget of $47.2 billion, ...

In January the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made significant changes to the nation’s childhood vaccination schedule. For ...

For the first time, total enrollment in U.S. MD-granting medical schools reached over 100,000 students in the 2025-26 academic year, according to data released today by the AAMC. The data also show ...

For infectious disease (ID) specialist Helen Boucher, MD, dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine and chief academic officer of Tufts Medicine, the threat of drug-resistant superbugs is up ...

Every year, 1.3 million American women reach menopause, many having experienced years of bewildering symptoms that mark the end of their reproductive lives. Yet less than half of women ages 50 to 64 ...

Up to 650 layoffs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Tennessee. More than 200 positions eliminated at UC San Diego Health. A hiring pause at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire. Those are ...

Louise McCullough, MD, PhD, didn’t originally plan to study the microbiome — the collection of trillions of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms that live in the gastrointestinal (GI) ...