If you were prescribed medicine to lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke, would you take it? Millions of Americans are prescribed statins such as Lipitor, Crestor or generic formulations to lower their cholesterol. But lots of people are hesitant to start the medication.

The drug could be a useful new tool for treating childhood obesity.

X-ray images of nude models hit the internet earlier this year and caused a storm of link sharing and comments. The images were packaged as a pinup calendar and its oddly titillating play on nudity had nerds ogling and wondering about the images’ origins. Blogs asked “Are these images racy?,” and even, “Is it porn?” […]

Wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, but a mask’s effectiveness depends on how well it fits. Currently, there are no simple ways to measure the fit of a mask, but a new sensor developed at MIT could make it much easier to ensure a good fit. The sensor, which measures physical contact between the mask and the wearer’s face, can be applied to any kind of mask.

Engineers at Duke University have developed a novel delivery system for cancer treatment and demonstrated its potential against one of the disease’s most troublesome forms. In newly published research in mice with pancreatic cancer, the scientists showed how a radioactive implant could completely eliminate tumors in the majority of the rodents, demonstrating what they say is the most effective treatment ever studied in these pre-clinical models.

Scientists are working on vaccines that train cells to see tumors as foreign, in hopes of one day making breast cancer preventable.

A new type of cancer therapy that uses a common virus to infect and destroy harmful cells is showing big promise in early human trials, say UK scientists. One patient's cancer vanished, while others saw their tumours shrink. The drug is a weakened form of the cold sore virus - herpes simplex - that has been modified to kill tumours.

A new method to detect Parkinson’s disease has been determined by analysing sebum with mass spectrometry. The study, published today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, have found that there are lipids of high molecular weight that are substantially more active in people suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

Solving a sleep mystery, Dr. Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford University helps pave the way for new treatments. The richest award in science is going to a Stanford sleep scientist and other top thinkers in their fields, named winners of the glitzy Breakthrough Prize on Thursday morning.

Five seriously ill lupus patients have seen their disease driven into remission after a single infusion of modified immune cells, in a small trial that borrows from cancer therapy to harness patients' own cells to treat the autoimmune condition.

Chemotherapy drugs can be lifesaving – but they don’t work for all patients or for all cancers. That’s why a team of researchers at the University of Toronto Mississauga is looking at new ways to use special types of light to target cancer cells resistant to current drug therapy – an approach that might be easier on some patients than traditional chemotherapy.

Tumor cells are notoriously good at evading the human immune system; they put up physical walls, wear disguises and handcuff the immune system with molecular tricks. Now, UC San Francisco researchers have developed a drug that overcomes some of these barriers, marking cancer cells for destruction by the immune system.

Medtronic placed a $2.6 million order for some of the company’s instruments and cameras, and its interest in Titan should help the smaller firm as it seeks to win approval for its device and market it globally.

Just about a million organ transplants have now been performed in the United States. The milestone was reached Friday, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nonprofit facilitator of these life-saving operations in the U.S. It’s been nearly 70 years since the first donated whole organ was successfully transplanted into a human.

The United States recorded its one millionth organ transplant Friday afternoon, a historic milestone for the medical procedure that has saved thousands of lives. The record achievement was confirmed at 12:50 p.m. ET by the United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit that runs the only organ procurement and transplantation network in the country.

A malaria vaccine with "world-changing" potential has been developed by scientists at the University of Oxford. The team expect it to be rolled out next year after trials showed up to 80% protection against the deadly disease.

According to a new study, long-term use of prescription steroids lowers the volume of white matter in the brain, potentially impacting memory recall and other functions.

A 4 year-old-boy is recovering after a metal straw pierced an artery in his neck. The freak accident occurred when preschooler Charlie DeFraia fell from a porch ledge while sipping a yogurt drink through a metal straw at his family's home in East Moriches, New York, in June, according to Today.

The myriads of microbes in our gut, collectively termed the microbiome, are considered important to our health, but they can also harbor bacteria that contribute to inflammatory bowel disease or other disorders. Currently, however, it is impossible to target such disease-contributing bacteria without harming the surrounding beneficial microbes.

When you pop a pill, it begins a long and convoluted journey into your stomach, through the twisting intestines, and then into the bloodstream.