Discharging a patient to a skilled nursing facility or other type of post-acute care facility after surgery can add more than ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a powerful new computational tool that could ...

An estimated 50 million people worldwide have dementia, with Alzheimer's disease—accounting for more than 70%—being the ...

Research into Blue Zones—regions of the world where people tend to live longer—shows that having a sense of purpose in life ...

Hundreds of children in Indonesia lined up for free measles shots Monday as authorities rolled out a vaccination campaign in ...

A person who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm—the first reported U.S. case tied to travel ...

A research team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine ...

For years, women in remote Kimberley communities faced an impossible choice—travel hundreds of kilometers for cervical ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SciLifeLab have developed a new method for ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human ...

Deep inside the body, a slow-growing cluster of mutated blood cells can form. This cluster, found in 1 in 5 older adults, can ...