Health

Medicine uses race to try to provide more equitable care. But that prescription likely does more harm.

One question for Luis Ciria, a neuroscientist at the University of Granada.

A vulva by any other name … causes confusion and unnecessary suffering.

The failure to produce an artificial heart is a testament to the wizardry of nature.

A physician diagnoses the problem with medical notes—with a prescription for change.

The best defense can be learned from the evolution of the animal immune system.

One question for J.D. Haltigan, an assistant professor of child and youth mental health at the University of Toronto.

I want to solve illnesses, not scroll through them—the dilemma of electronic health records.

Inside the research to get neurons back in a healthy conversation with one another.

Meet the human cell-based models that are better, faster, cheaper—and more ethical to use—than animals.

Tumors grow when cells lose their biological identity. A promising therapeutic might restore their sense of self.

Scientists are getting closer to designing safer, more targeted pain drugs to replace opioids.

How the sewage plant in our nation’s capital spins human poop into fertilizer gold.

The author on writing her new book, “The Other Dark Matter.”

Experiments once considered crazy are now helping scientists attack tumors.