medicine

What if all US health care costs were transparent?

A beginner's guide to quantum computing

What your breath could reveal about your health

The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne

Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells?

What the US health care system assumes about you

A "living drug" that could change the way we treat cancer

What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics

How nanoparticles could change the way we treat cancer

To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language

How a long-forgotten virus could help us solve the antibiotics crisis

What Americans agree on when it comes to health

The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home

A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable

A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor

How doctors can help low-income patients (and still make a profit)

4 questions you should always ask your doctor

What causes headaches?

The doctors, nurses and aid workers rebuilding Syria

What if we eliminated one of the world's oldest diseases?

Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms

The key to a better malaria vaccine

How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet

A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls)

How does the immune system work?

Math can help uncover cancer's secrets

How we're tracking medical donations across the world

What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy?

The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment

How we study the microbes living in your gut

For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over

A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal

How a male contraceptive pill could work

How augmented reality could change the future of surgery

How cancer cells communicate -- and how we can slow them down

The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it