MEDICINE

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

Bacteria's physiology could potentially be used to make all kinds of new drugs.

The Pillsy bottle cap sends you notifications to make sure you never forget to take your medications or vitamins.

Without nurses, we wouldn’t have a number of tools regularly used today in both hospitals and homes.

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

A new study models the brain interactions that could be behind the tics.

This gene may give scientists a new tool to understand the eating disorder—and steps toward potential new treatment.

Financially speaking, orthopedists are getting the most out of their medical degrees.

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

People with depression produced higher-than-average levels of the hormone AVP; the reverse was true for people with schizophrenia.

Alcohol, opium, and leeches to treat a cold? No, thank you! Here are seven old-timey cold remedies that are better left in the past.

The patch uses sweat, not blood, to monitor blood sugar levels.