Health

An in-development treatment for alcoholism dramatically reduced consumption in monkeys that previously drank heavily.

A new brain mapping study identified commonalities in the brains of people with mental illnesses, and it could lead to better treatments.

Mixing stem cell transplantation with immunotherapy significantly improves survival rates for a deadly childhood cancer.

A noninvasive form of brain stimulation developed by Japanese researchers improved the symptoms of Parkinsonian gait in a small trial.

When fat cells are overloaded with excess nutrients, they become too big and don't receive enough oxygen, causing them to die.

An experimental vaccine designed to prevent an EBV infection might also prevent cancer and multiple sclerosis.

Speech is unique to humans, yet most brain structures involved in speech are also present in Old World monkeys and other primates — except this one.

The FDA-approved heart medication ranolazine boosted the efficacy of a BRAF inhibitor in mouse models of melanoma, the deadliest skin cancer.

Chemists have shown how to manufacture ibuprofen and acetaminophen using a waste product from the forestry and paper industries.

The weight-loss drug semaglutide reduced patients’ risk of heart attacks, strokes, or death from heart disease by 20% in a large trial.