Health

The nervous energy was palpable as hundreds of bike riders, shrink-wrapped in colorful Lycra outfits, waited for the start...

Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease. Source: nytimes.com

The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are territorial and have violent bouts...

About a month ago, Judith Hansen popped awake in the predawn hours, thinking about her father’s brain.Her father, Morrie...

It didn’t become part of vaccination programs in Africa until 2024.What if it had come faster?What if the shots...

V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer...

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, the latest in a novel...

Ann Lurie, a self-described hippie who went on to become one of Chicago’s most celebrated philanthropists, in one instance...

Dr. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician whose research on fatal lung disease in newborns led to lifesaving...

When I was growing up, my dad, who has left the country only a few times, told me about...