Science Saturday

For the better part of a century, brain tumors have been judged by their appearance. Where a tumor was located, how much it spread, and ...

Physicians have long known that people with rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic conditions such as lupus are more likely to die at younger ages ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – For story ideas, contacts, expert interviews, background. Republication with permission. Healing open wounds with regenerative medicine Imagine a condition bad enough ...

They’re not diamonds, but they are stones – kidney stone crystals – that are viewed microscopically and enhanced by polarized light. The wafer of ...

To the uninitiated, cardiovascular disease, body mass index and eating disorders may seem unrelated to bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression. Yet, researchers ...

175,000 deaths are reported each year around the world, due to aortic aneurysms. When the largest blood vessel in the body, the aorta, dilates like ...

On August 20, 2015, former president Jimmy Carter announced he was battling metastatic melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Doctors removed a one-inch mass ...

“People were still getting fractures.” That was the problem faced by Sundeep Khosla, M.D., Mayo Clinic endocrinologist and osteoporosis expert. He and his team were ...

Crohn’s-related wounds may have met their match in a pioneering regenerative therapy thanks to truly collaborative team science. In the world of medical trials, a ...

The road to developments that change medicine is littered with seemingly great ideas. In the early stages, that road meanders like a mountain trail ...

Curiosity, unconventional thinking, and random chance drive research into new drugs for the treatment of kidney disease. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis—yes, it’s a mouthful. ...

Thomas Hoffman of Spearfish, S.D., was 56, weighed 235, and had been diagnosed with prediabetes when he began to diet. As the pounds ...