MEDICINE

The Friends Hospital opened its doors May 15, 1817, back when people with mental illnesses were usually treated like outcasts.

Academics at the University of Mississippi want to construct a new lab to study the remains and build a visitor's center and a memorial.

A drug already on the market could help protect diners’ guts against small amounts of gluten, thereby reducing fears of cross-contamination.

You’ll be happy to know that there’s a reason for all that pill packing material—and even happier to know that it’s a dying trend.

A new study provides additional diagnostic information that could change the way depression is treated.

Joint hypermobility can be a natural, if weird, phenomenon, but it can also be a sign of an underlying medical condition.

It’s all about your enzymes.

The drug manipulates the expression of a specific gene associated with the disease.

On March 26, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk went on CBS radio to announce his vaccine for poliomyelitis. He had worked for three years to develop the polio vaccine, attacking a disease that killed 3000 Americans in 1952 alone, along with 58,000 newly reported cases

Get to know an assortment of under-sung or oft-forgotten scientists whose discoveries and inventions played important roles in saving individual lives—and arguably, entire civilizations.

We're still learning about one of the most important structures of the brain.

Knowing a patient’s subtype could help their doctor choose the best treatment.