Some experts believe CKD is the first chronic illness directly connected to climate change. Prevention may be possible.

Chatbots weren't designed for mental health, but they are increasingly used for therapy. What are the risks an benefits?

Progress has been made in identifying and treating the disease, but the impact of federal cuts is yet to be borne out.

The organization Frontline Health Advocates provides medical exemption notes — for a fee. What exactly are they selling?

In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

For decades, the agency has redacted drug names from reports. Now, several former officials support ending the practice.

The federal government announced a new approach to regulating pharmaceutical ads. Consumers may not see a difference.

Oren Harman's "Metamorphosis" explores the minutiae of biological change and the mechanics of how life shifts forms.

Millions of women have pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD. But diagnoses and treatments vary considerably.

Ashburn is a largely middle-class, predominately African American, Hispanic, and Latino community on Chicago’s far Southwest Side. The community borders two neighboring suburbs and is known for its ...

In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather simulations on an early computer system when he realized that a small rounding difference led to extremely divergent weather predictions.

Daniel P. Johnson, a geographer at Indiana University at Indianapolis, works with a team of researchers who spend a lot of time catching blowflies, dissecting their iridescent blue-green abdomens, and ...