Top WHO official: I’m relieved it isn’t bird flu, but we’re in a ‘make or break’ phase for hantavirus Maria Van Kerkhove says diagnosis felt like dodging a bullet, but warned the outbreak’s evolution ...

The origins of medicine and its development during the Middle Ages, including in Belarus, were explored by Igor Marzalyuk, ...

A low dose of digoxin ensures that people with heart failure are hospitalized and die less frequently. This emerges from ...

To mark Pennsylvania Hospital’s 275th anniversary, archivist Stacey Peeples is leading its transition into a museum for the public, open May 8.

Amazing Stories was like nothing else when its April 1926 issue appeared on newsstands. Between its lurid painted covers was the first magazine devoted exclusively to the publication of what came to ...

Sayantani DasGupta is not your typical Columbia professor. A pediatrician by training, DasGupta is a founding faculty member of the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine program, where she now ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

Kevin Ashton relates an anecdote about sex, beetles and oranges that sounds funny but isn’t, really. In “The Story of Stories,” Mr. Ashton tells how the arrival of oranges in Western Australia ...

Amazing Spider-Man #1000 is now confirmed for a September release, and the lead-up to this monumental milestone has already begun. Joe Kelly's hit run with artists Pepe Larraz, John Romita Jr., and ...

In this Focus issue, we highlight research and opinion pieces on the many conceptual and practical contributions of evolutionary biology to predicting and controlling disease.