A hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women around the world just got a new name in hopes of improving care. It Is now called ...

There is a new name and understanding of a health condition affecting many women. Roughly 10% to 13% of women around the ...

An estimated 1 in 8 women live with polycystic ovarian syndrome, commonly referred to as PCOS. However, the name is a bit of a misnomer; it suggests that the condition affects only the ovaries. In ...

Medical care for the condition has typically focused on fertility and reproduction, at the expense of the other effects of the disorder.

A disease’s name can have a significant influence on its diagnosis and treatment – or lack thereof. Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is a condition that affects millions of people worldwide. For ...

On May 16, 2026, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took the unprecedented step of declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) without first convening an ...

Some discoveries change the way we view the human body. In 2021, researchers described what they saw when they had examined skin-biopsy samples that included tattoos: The ink particles had traveled ...

A remote gold mining town is under siege, as medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections. By Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi The failure to protect NATO territory further ...

In TRIUMPH-1, participants on 12 mg retatrutide lost an average of 70.3 lbs (28.3%) over 80 weeks with 45.3% of participants achieving =30% weight loss, a level long ...

The COVID-19 pandemic sent shock waves through the world economy and triggered the largest global economic crisis in more than a century. The crisis led to a dramatic increase in inequality within and ...

Coal-based steel plants risk locking in 60 billion tonnes of CO 2 by 2070, but most of these emissions can still be avoided at moderate cost. Steel need not be hard to decarbonize: policymakers must ...