The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

First-ever clinical trial exclusively conducted among people with hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis known as pre-extensively ...

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The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer immunotherapy ...

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Ted A. James, MD, MHCM, FACS, is the Medical Director and Vice Chair at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, USA. He is also an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Many people with autism spectrum disorders also experience unusual gastrointestinal inflammation, but thus far scientists have not established whether and how those conditions might be linked. Now, ...

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In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

For Rogulja, an associate professor of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, an intriguing aspect of sleep is the loss of consciousness and awareness it brings, as the ...

Digital Media Tips From pediatrician and former filmmaker Dr. Michael Rich, aka “The Mediatrician”® Beware of digital media distraction. Half of all kids and three-quarters of parents feel the other ...