disease

It's time we ask blood donors better questions

Why your doctor should care about social justice

The problem with race-based medicine

This tiny particle could roam your body to find tumors

A new superweapon in the fight against cancer

Can a teddybear change how children relate to their own disease?

How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really

4 powerful poems about Parkinson's and growing older

How we'll fight the next deadly virus

Debunking the myths of OCD

Could your brain repair itself?

What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more?

The next outbreak? We're not ready

Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill

Why it's so hard to cure HIV/AIDS

How does the thyroid manage your metabolism?

Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war

How butterflies self-medicate

History vs. Christopher Columbus

Meet the mom who started the Ice Bucket Challenge

Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women

What happens when you remove the hippocampus?

Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)

The hunt for "unexpected genetic heroes"

The loathsome lethal mosquito

3 reasons we still haven’t gotten rid of malaria

Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper

Let's treat violence like a contagious disease

A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager

How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones?

Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

Pool medical patents, save lives

The secret of the bat genome

Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer

The promise of research with stem cells

What we're learning from 5,000 brains