A University of Alberta study shows that rural Albertans living with multiple sclerosis are not as likely as urban patients to receive the best treatments to prevent relapses and slow down progression ...

I still remember when a patient woke up from hip surgery in tears—tears of relief. She had been terrified of waking up groggy and overwhelmed by narcotics, a stark contrast to her previous experience.

To better understand decision-making, researchers can create computational models—groups of equations that aim to predict what decisions people would make when faced with a set of choices. For example ...

Pediatric infectious diseases experts stress the importance of vaccination against measles, one of the most contagious viruses, which is once more spreading in the United States. In the article ...

From needles, snakes and airplanes to test-taking, speech-making and germs, sources of all-encompassing panic can make pushing through daily life feel like more trouble than it's worth.

An updated set of guidelines to improve transparency and clarity in the reporting of randomized controlled trials have been published. The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) 2025 ...

As firefighters battled the catastrophic blazes in Los Angeles County in January, California's U.S. senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, signed onto legislation with a simple aim: provide federal ...

Poor communications between health care workers contributed to 25% of hospital incidents that put patients' safety at risk, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Research from the University of Portsmouth suggests that bras offering excessive bounce reduction may come with hidden ...

A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has identified a previously unknown enzyme, SIRT2, that plays a key ...

Young adults—particularly college students—are more likely than any other group in the U.S. to engage in heavy drinking and ...

Researchers have demonstrated the potential of the innovative optical genome mapping (OGM) technique for the diagnosis, ...