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Taking Daily Aspirin May Be Risky for Healthy Older Adults: Study

By Jamie Ducharme

Cancer Will Kill About 10 Million People This Year, Experts Predict

By Jamie Ducharme

Scientists Are Developing New Ways to Treat Disease With Cells, Not Drugs

By Alice Park

The Placebo Effect Is Real, and Scientists May Be Able To Predict Who Responds

By Jamie Ducharme
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New Developments in Ovarian Cancer Treatment Are Showing Promise

Ovarian cancer is among the toughest to treat once it spreads.

By Alice Park

HPV Testing Can Replace Pap Smears for Many Women, New Guidelines Say

Both can help detect cervical cancer

By Jamie Ducharme

How People With Type 2 Diabetes Can Lower Their Risk of Health Problems

These five risk factors are key

By Alice Park

Wearing Boxers May Be Better for Your Sperm Count, Study Says

At least if you're trying to conceive

By Jamie Ducharme

There's More Good News About Immune Therapies for Cancer

Treatments can help people with advanced melanoma live longer

By Alice Park

How Scientists Test Cancer Drugs to Slow Down Aging

It works in mice. Will it help in humans?

By Alice Park

How to Have the Most Fun in Your Free Time, According to Science

Make your calendar more fun

By Jamie Ducharme

How a Drug For Pets May Help Prevent Zika and Malaria

It could halt the spread of some mosquito-borne diseases

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Why You Should Enroll Your Kids in Piano Lessons, According to Science

They may have an unexpected benefit

By Jamie Ducharme

Doctors Are Using Diseased Organs To Save Lives. Here’s How

For two long years, Tom Giangiulio jr., 58, was on the national waiting list for a heart transplant. He had cardiomyopathy, a condition that can weaken the heart muscle, and although he’d taken medication and...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Genetic Testing Is Providing New Hope for Babies

Newborns with maladies doctors can't explain face bleak odds. Now genetic testing is providing answers--and hope

By Alice Park

Exclusive: Woman Can Move Again After a Breakthrough Stroke Treatment

The first person to receive deep brain stimulation (DBS) for stroke recovery is performing far better than her doctors anticipated. Two years ago, Judy Slater, a 59 year old in Pulaski, Pennsylvania, was getting out...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Cancer's Newest Miracle Cure

It combines the power of genetics and the immune system, and it's saving lives

By Alice Park

New Hope for Depression

Depression afflicts 16 million Americans. One third don’t get better with treatment. A surprising new drug may change that

LIFE Shared This Remarkable Parkinson's Disease Story in 1959. A Lot Has Changed Since Then

The great photographer Margaret Bourke-White let readers into her private experience with the symptoms

By Lily Rothman , Liz Ronk and Julia Lull
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