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At 62, Oscar Campanini expected some aches and pains in his joints, especially after his weekly pickup soccer game. But two years ago, the pain ...

Diseases of the human body evolve and change, but their effect on patients is fixed. In a French hospital in 1894, diagnosis of a patient with ...

Aquariums are arranged in neat, illuminated rows. Fins, tails and flashing stripes are visible in every direction. On the Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester, Minnesota, ...

At the age of 10, Ruth Lupu, Ph.D., told her father she’d cure cancer. “I probably didn’t know what cancer was,” laughs Dr. ...

In the world of scientific research, a decade can go by without major findings on what’s known about a disease. But over the past 10 ...

Engineer, Air Force brigadier general, and surgeon: Michael Yaszemski, M.D., Ph.D., builds research teams and polymer scaffolds to regenerate hope for patients. Orthopedic surgeon ...

Measles has long been our enemy but with modification it transforms into a weapon against ovarian cancer. Rene Maleski knew it was bad news when the ...

The recent measles outbreak in Minnesota reached an unfortunate milestone (and extensive national news coverage) on June 1, 2017 when it exceeded the total number ...

Space—with near-zero gravity, no atmosphere, and extremes of heat and cold—is an unusual and often hostile environment. But it’s also an opportunity—for medical researchers ...

Immunotherapy offers new drugs and drug delivery to help the body's "janitor" with its job. The response of the immune system to cancer is ...