How misleading statements on acetaminophen leave expectant parents confused, fearful and lacking in options

Researchers have developed a new laser-based technique that targets pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) while leaving healthy tissue intact. PDAC is the most common type of pancreatic cancer and the third leading cause of death related to cancer.

People with Sweet's syndrome often wake up with a fever, body aches, and blisters on their neck, limbs and face. Also known as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, it is an inflammatory skin disease marked by severe symptoms and elevated counts of white blood cells.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to spotlight a disease that will affect hundreds of thousands of Americans this year. In the U.S., a new case of breast cancer is diagnosed about every two minutes, with more than 317,000 women and 2,800 men expected to receive the diagnosis in 2025, according to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

A few easy-to-implement tools—a training video, electronic health record prompts and handouts for families—greatly increased how often pediatricians recommended early peanut introduction to infants, reports a new clinical study led by Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

A research team has determined that severe obesity causes the lungs to age faster. The team was led by Prof. Dr. Veronika Lukacs-Kornek from the "ImmunoSensation2" Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bonn and the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology (IMMEI) at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB). The findings have been published in Cell Reports.

A new report led by researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center underscores the growing potential of precision medicine to transform how obesity is prevented, diagnosed and treated, while also illuminating key gaps and challenges that must be addressed.

I'm in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother's bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the table, bench and floor. It's a chaotic—but functional—solution to the problem.

A new way of diagnosing heavy bleeding after birth (postpartum hemorrhage or PPH) is more effective at identifying women in need of treatment than the current diagnostic method, suggests a meta-analysis published in The Lancet.

E-cigarettes are fueling an "alarming" new wave of nicotine addiction, with millions of children now hooked on vaping, the World Health Organization warned Monday.

Major rifts over key health care issues are at the heart of the federal government shutdown that began at the stroke of midnight on Oct. 1, 2025.

Walk down the health aisle of any supermarket and you'll see shelves lined with brightly packaged vitamin and mineral supplements designed for children.

As students settle into the school year, the reality is that many will not experience full inclusion in the classroom.

Actress, singer and makeup mogul Selena Gomez has been candid about her experience of living with lupus. Since 2015, Gomez has documented on social media and in interviews the effect the condition has had on her health.

Fewer than one percent of people who have changed their legal gender choose to revert to the gender they were assigned at birth. This has been shown in a new study from Uppsala University in which the researchers looked at how stable a gender change is over time in Sweden.

When your teeth and gums are in good condition, you might not even notice their impact on your day-to-day life. Good oral health helps us chew, taste, swallow, speak and convey emotions.

The bladder is easy to overlook—until it starts causing trouble. This small, balloon-like organ in the lower urinary tract quietly stores and releases urine, helping the body eliminate waste and maintain fluid balance.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop the body's immune system from attacking itself.

HealthFORCE, a national alliance of leaders dedicated to addressing the root causes of America's health care workforce crisis, along with the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) and West Health, today released "Aging Well with AI: Empowering Care through Innovation," the first in a two-part white paper series exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can strengthen the U.S. health care workforce and improve access to care. The paper was commissioned by the three organizations and authored by The LINUS Group, a health care strategy and research firm.