Colon cancer has overtaken every other cancer as the number one cause of cancer death among Americans under 50. That's not a typo. A disease once associated almost exclusivel...
For years, the data streaming off your wrist — heart rate variability, sleep stages, movement patterns, skin temperature — has been largely ignored by the medical establishme...
Measles is back. Not as a footnote in public health reports, but as a full-blown crisis — one that pandemic researchers say should terrify anyone paying attention to what com...
The measles outbreak that tore through South Carolina is losing steam. New case counts are dropping. Public health officials are cautiously optimistic. But the underlying con...
AI chatbots miss medical diagnoses at an alarming rate. That's the blunt takeaway from a growing body of research now drawing serious attention from clinicians, technologists...
In late 2016, a peculiar and terrifying phenomenon began to unfold within the walls of the United States embassy in Havana, Cuba. American diplomats and intelligence officers...
In a surprising turn of events that has sent shockwaves through the public health community, the Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, appointed during the second...
Viral mutations present a relentless challenge to global public health. Every year, scientists race to update formulations for seasonal influenza, and the emergence of SARS-C...
New York state legislators have introduced a bill that would prohibit AI chatbots from dispensing legal, medical, or financial advice to consumers. The proposal, if passed, w...
A newly surfaced declassified CIA document is making the rounds online, and it's not about espionage or regime change. It's about cancer. Specifically, it appears to describe...
A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has demonstrated that an AI diagnostic system can match or beat seasoned physicians when it comes to identif...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly altered the way it talks about childhood vaccines, and the shift matters more than the bureaucratic language suggests. Un...