Why do so many kids need glasses now?
For $15,000, you can get your pet a new kidney.
New variants are coming. How worried should we be?
Umbilical blood can be a valuable treatment for rare diseases. But that doesn’t mean you need to pay thousands of dollars to bank your baby’s.
Even now, the coronavirus is killing three times as many people as the flu.
There’s no such thing as a dog that can’t cause allergies.
For decades, the government has been carrying out an ambitious plan to mass vaccinate the wild animals by airplane.
The key ingredient in our oldest vaccine is a mystery that goes back 200 years.
A newly discovered tooth hints at how the Chincoteague ponies got to America.
No one knows exactly what this will look like—only that it’s guaranteed to keep happening.
There are not enough humans to take care of all the animals.
The medication is approved until week 10 of pregnancy in the U.S. But the WHO says it can be safely used until 12 weeks, and activists have used it even later.
An experimental therapy helped patients with a rare disease feel better. It also led to an accidental makeover.
Five years ago, monkeypox made a leap—and most of the world ignored it.
Genetic testing is a routine part of pregnancy. Abortion restrictions are already shifting how doctors talk about the results.
No one knows exactly why hundreds of kids have shown up with hepatitis, but investigators have some ideas.
And an organ-transplant company has an unexpected solution.
Whatever happened to the simpler Greek-letter naming system?
Ancient DNA reveals unexpected twists in the history of this deadly disease.
Uptake of COVID vaccines for kids has been slow, but it has been slow for other vaccines too.
For many people, Epstein-Barr virus causes mild initial infection, but it is also linked to cancers and multiple sclerosis. What do we do about it?