Remember when the latest tech was a pedometer that counted your steps? Those days are long gone. Now, your workout gear can analyze muscle fatigue like a team of PhDs. Wearable sensors track your ...

Medicine stands at the precipice of an exciting new era. We're closer than ever to achieving functional cures for once-intracable diseases, including HIV. Stem-cell treatments are repairing blinding ...

As a physician who has spent decades caring for patients and later had the privilege of serving as Secretary of Health and ...

With pressure from global competitors and recent changes in domestic policy threatening to undermine U.S. leadership in this ...

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. It has been a tough year for medicine. The U.S. research enterprise has been scrambled by a series of political decisions ...

Congress must pass bipartisan legislation to ensure Medicare coverage of breakthrough medical technologies, writes a ...

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From custom gene editing to a discovery that could help stop pancreatic cancer before it starts, these advances offer a glimpse at the future of human health. A colorized transmission electron ...

Over the last two years, research has improved the understanding and treatment of disease. Using tools such as gene editing, ...

Live Science's health channel editor makes predictions about the medical breakthroughs and public health shifts to come in 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...