Field: Healthcare

Even though pain is universal and we know it happens in the brain, we've never before had a way to objectively measure its intensity.

The first treatments proven to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s are helping settle a decades-long debate about how the disease starts.

A Swiss company has developed a lightweight, comfortable bracelet which can provide constant and accurate information about blood pressure.

The ability of AI to diagnose diseases, discover drugs, and even perform surgery is increasing rapidly — but will patients accept Dr. AI?

Our bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein — especially if we’re reaching for ultraprocessed foods.

Powered by AI and a vast trove of data, the Human Immunome Project aims to fully map the most complex system in the human body.

When rapamycin research was revived, it was found to have both anti-cancer and anti-aging properties. Here's what researchers say today.

An AI that encourages doctors to talk to cancer patients about their end-of-life care impacts how they choose to live out their final days.

Tech giant Apple is developing an app with an AI health coach to help you live a healthier lifestyle, according to a Bloomberg report.

More than a third of Americans don’t log enough hours in bed, provoking serious health impacts. Diet is an important, under-recognized reason.

With healthcare, it is not enough to spot patterns: we need to understand biological mechanisms. Ai can help us do it.

The famous placebo effect has a long, rich history — it certainly had an outsized role in the medicine of centuries past.

Guided conversations with the terminally ill are popular with patients, families and doctors. But are they truly beneficial?

Ants were just as accurate as cancer-sniffing dogs. Better yet, they could be trained in minutes rather than months.

We're detecting and aggressively treating more tumors than ever before. But we're also over-treating more cancers then ever.

It takes around 17 years for medical research to translate into clinical practice — why not use EMR data to speed things up?

The reason whole-body vibration training is gaining interest is because it’s far easier to do than regular exercise.

Scientists are finding tumor signals in spit that could be key to developing diagnostic tests for various types of cancer

A new study links higher blood levels of sugar-free sweeteners, commonly found in ketogenic diet foods, to a greater risk of death.

A sudden shift to virtual health care has increased access — and possibly outcomes — for patients with opioid use disorder.

A recent study showed exercise is an effective way to treat mental health issues – and can be more effective than medication or counselling.

Patients who received tirzepatide in a recent clinical study lost more than 20% of their body weight (52 pounds, or 23.6 kg).

Periodontal (gum) disease is more common in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis, implicating the former in causing the latter.

A handful of animals make a pared-down version of our own antibodies. Scientists hope to harness them as treatments for human illnesses.

Did He Jiankui "Make People Better"? A new documentary leans toward a different narrative about gene-editing than we've heard before.

Cancer-protective microbes support cooperative behaviour by bodily cells, but cancer-inducing microbes undermine it.

Researchers have begun to study yoga's effects and are finding that it has great benefits for both mental and physical health.

Researchers find that, in some cases, tooth dentin can be regrown instead of needing to be replaced with man-made composite.

Delivering chemotherapy to colon cancer patients before and after surgery — instead of just after — reduces their risk of recurrence by 28%.

The FDA has cleared Wandercraft's self-balancing, hands-free Atalante exoskeleton for use during stroke rehab.

Researchers concluded that exercise should be prescribed to patients with mental health issues before psychiatric drugs.

Researchers set out to find the least amount of walking one could do to offset the harmful health effects of sitting.

A new hypothesis suggests that Alzheimer's disease is the result of "jumping genes" in the brain, not inflammation or plaque.

People with shingles have an approximately 80% higher risk of stroke than those without the disease, and researchers want to know why.

With a single incision, some surgeons can now accomplish just as much as they previously did with four.

Research suggests that microglia play a key role in preventing neurodegenerative diseases by helping to remove toxic waste.

While treatments are available for HCV-related infections, they are expensive, hard to access, and do not protect against reinfection.

This bacteria is found only in the intestines of people with rheumatoid arthritis, and not in the intestines of healthy people.

A new device allowed a paralyzed patient to "speak," spelling out full sentences in real-time with an error rate of about 8%.

MCED tests are different from existing ones because they are trying to detect early-stage cancer, when there aren’t that many tumor cells.

With ketamine showing potential as an antidepressant, researchers investigate another anesthetic: nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas."

Patients wait from 30 days to over five years to receive a liver transplant in the U.S. What if the liver could regenerate itself instead?

A new study found that AI can use a patient’s initial skin cancer growth to predict their risk of melanoma recurrence.

MIT and Harvard researchers mapped out many of the cells, genes, and cellular pathways that are modified by exercise or high-fat diet.

A newborn hearing screening device made from off-the-shelf earbuds is as effective as expensive commercial options.

To avoid one of the worst side effects of aging—bone, joint, and muscle pain—we might need to exercise a lot harder and more often.

A system for monitoring motion and muscle engagement could aid the elderly and athletes during physical rehabilitation.

Purdue researchers have created a smart, soft contact lens that can test for eye pressure, a key indicator of glaucoma, 24 hours a day.

New AI tools are helping doctors screen healthy patients for diseases early, when treatments are most effective.

A survey of over 9,000 men in nine countries found that over 55% would be willing to use a new method of male birth control.

Children who walk or bike to school at a young age are more likely to continue the habit as they age, a new study shows.

New research out of the University of Cambridge may have discovered a mechanism behind metastasis.

A new review finds that 14 different cancers, including eight related to the digestive system, are increasing in people under age 50.

Does COVID somehow weaken the immune system to make us more prone to other infectious diseases? Here's what scientists know.

Creatine shows promise as a treatment for depression, boosting the effects of SSRIs and potentially working as a standalone medication.

A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health.”

Researchers are working to get a more complete understanding of the cells and antibodies behind long COVID.

Due to HIV-1's extraordinary diversity, a vaccine needs to induce antibodies that can target many different strains.

A woman in Scotland was found to feel virtually no pain and report zero trace of any anxiety or depression.

People are being diagnosed with depression earlier than in the past because of a decrease in stigma and better diagnostic guidelines.

Echonet, an AI trained to assess a measure of heart function, has outperformed trained technicians in both accuracy and efficiency.

Anesthesia, penicillin, antibiotics, diazepam, and the birth control pill have all radically changed our lives.

MIT researchers have developed an easy-to-use test that may be able to predict an individual’s immune response to SARS-CoV-2.

Digital health is attracting record levels of investment in products such as smart toilet seats, which can help millions get access to care.

A microbiologist looks at how home test kits work, what kind of information they provide and if they can really help change your gut.

The FDA is making over-the-counter hearing aids available to Americans, potentially making the devices cheaper and more accessible.

Researchers have created a cocktail of viruses that may be able to treat inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s.

Damage to the ends of the chromosomes can create “zombie cells” that are still alive but can’t function, researchers say.

Understanding the immunological mechanisms underlying long COVID-19 is the first step to addressing a quickly worsening public health problem.

MIT researchers have created an ultrasound sticker that can continuously monitor a person’s organs and tissues for up to 48 hours.

How do you engineer an implant that doesn't harm an organ as soft as tofu? MIT engineers 3D-printed new soft brain implants.

The collapse in child mortality rates is a testament to the tremendous benefits of scientific, technological, and economic progress.

Intranasal vaccines are best suited to protect against pathogens that enter through the nose, like the flu or the coronavirus.

Adults aged 51-75 who were unable to balance on one foot for ten seconds had an 84% higher risk of death than their peers who could.

In order for a drug to get to the small intestine, it must first get past the highly acidic environment of the stomach.

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is using drone deliveries to make it easier for cancer patients to obtain chemotherapy.

Wearable devices can detect the specific molecules in food and our body’s response to it, allowing us to make better dietary decisions.

Administering Lac-Phe to obese mice significantly lowered their appetite, reduced body fat, and improved glucose tolerance.

A team at ETH Zurich has modified E. coli to work like biological recorders of the processes of the gut.

Apple Watch motion data will now be incorporated into Rune Labs’ StrivePD app, which tracks Parkinson’s symptoms.

Pregnancy bestows on babies enhanced antibodies that can protect against a broader range of disease. Now, we know how.

Direct sound printing could one day allow doctors to build medical implants inside patients’ bodies instead of surgically placing them.

A "masked" cancer drug stealthily trains immune system to kill tumors while sparing healthy tissues, reducing treatment side effects.

MIT researchers performed a large-scale study of the cells in human breast milk, allowing them to track how these cells change over time.

Identifying the difference between normal genetic variation and disease-causing mutations is vital for determining a person's treatment.

A new treatment could prevent hospital-acquired infections by making it hard for biofilms to form on implanted medical devices.

The success of some drugs that use nanoparticles, such as the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, has prompted excitement among researchers.

A paramedic in a jet suit flew up a mountain in just 3.5 minutes, demonstrating how the tech could shave valuable minutes off response times.

New virus-based vaccines could play an important role in generating a long-lasting, broad immunity against a rapidly mutating virus.

A new MRI machine with a larger opening and a weaker magnetic field overcomes many shortcomings of other scanners.

Gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.

Robots are helping humans in a growing number of places - from archaeological sites to disaster zones to sewers.

People living with insulin-dependent diabetes have been waiting a long time for it to be more affordable. Could things change?

Stanford researchers have found that an infusion of cerebrospinal fluid from young mice improves the memory of old ones.

Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.

With a modified joystick, surgeons in one hospital may control a robotic arm at another location to safely operate on a patient.

Langer published the first paper to show that it was possible to deliver nucleic acids like RNA and DNA to the body via tiny particles.

Sloan Kettering researchers have proposed a controversial way to improve immunotherapy: making cancer cells mutate on purpose.

By analyzing genetic code determining susceptibility to health conditions like diabetes, it tells you which foods are best for you.

Overwashing is bad for skin health, but many people do it anyway. One reason is that our brains intimately associate stink with disgust.