Permanent daylight saving time would subject people to circadian misalignment for a full 12 months, sleep scientists assert.

Scientists put their stamps on medical-science history by naming their discoveries. Those names have serious scientific implications.

A famed geneticist who was the first to identify the ε4 variant of the APOE gene as a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. A former president of the National Academy of Medicine, whose ...

Over the past several years, COVID-19 has surged twice a year — once in the winter and once in the late summer. This pattern seems to be repeating in 2026. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Bigger muscles. Speedier injury healing. A longer life. Whatever the health or fitness concern, there’s probably a peptide purported to address it. Indeed, the use of these injectable substances, many ...

As the population ages and patients present with more complex health conditions, the phenomenon of polypharmacy — defined as the regular use of five or more medications by older adults ­— has become ...

Visitors to the Human Longevity Laboratory, part of the Potocsnak Longevity Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, spend up to three hours undergoing a battery of tests.

The federal government is nearly halfway through the 12-month fiscal year (FY) that began on Oct. 1, 2025. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget of $47.2 billion, ...

In January the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made significant changes to the nation’s childhood vaccination schedule. For ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on Jan. 26 with new statistics on the flu season thus far. At least 19 million Americans have come down with the flu — and 10,000, including 44 children, have ...

One of the most dire diagnoses for a doctor to deliver to a patient is “pancreatic cancer.” Just 13% of its victims live for five years after being diagnosed, according to the National Cancer ...

Medical school enrollment broke 100,000 students for the first time in 2025, new AAMC data shows. Each year, the AAMC publishes data on the most recent cohort of applicants and matriculants ...