When considering whether a child who has a single-ventricle heart defect would benefit more from biventricular repair or the Fontan procedure, heart specialists have lacked a key tool to guide them: ...

Pfizer has stopped developing a once-daily pill to treat obesity after a person in a clinical trial showed signs of a possible liver injury. The company said the injury went away after the person ...

In 2021, roughly 6% of the world's population, or 529 million people, were living with diabetes, mostly type 2 diabetes (T2D). In the same year, 1.6 million deaths were attributed to this disease.

Researchers have developed a cutting-edge chip technology capable of precisely mimicking the interactions between cancer cells and blood vessels, akin to the human body environment. This innovation is ...

Liver cancer can arise spontaneously from healthy liver tissue. Recently, however, researchers have discovered an increasing correlation between some liver cancers and non-viral chronic liver disease ...

New studies in rats suggest the drug reserpine, approved in 1955 for high blood pressure, might treat the blinding disease retinitis pigmentosa. No therapy exists for this rare inherited disease, ...

My mother has always had one unbreakable rule: no outdoor shoes inside the house. It didn't matter who you were—family member, neighbor, or guest—you had to take them off before crossing the threshold ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates—only 10% after five years. One of the factors contributing to its aggressiveness is its tumor ...

A baby girl named Amy Isabel has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother who has had a womb transplant. Amy is one of around 65 children worldwide born as a result of pioneering ...