Disease

Ticks that carry the pathogenic bacteria can now survive in environments where they previously would've frozen to death, resulting in an increased risk of infection.

• By Gabriela Serrato Marks

Children suffering from Rett Syndrome may have found hope in a drug combination that could potentially reverse disease symptoms by adjusting natural cellular functions.

• By Chelsea Weidman

A new study finds populations of several frog species in Panama appear to be gaining resistance to a deadly pathogen that can lead to extinction.

• By Morgan Erickson-Davis

Through the use of stem cell-based organoids researchers are making big strides in the study of neurodevelopmental diseases such as schizophrenia and autism.

• By Yewande Pearse

Many issues are exacerbated by light pollution, and new research suggests the spread of West Nile virus may be another one.

• By Linda Poon

Beginning in 2019, the CDC will phase out the program to include only 10 countries.

• By Candace Butera

Medicine, history, and rare age disorders are reshaping the way researchers view the process of aging, and it may extend lives for decades.

• By Ana Gorelova

It's become too late to ask whether or not we should edit the human germline; we can now only ask how the experiments will proceed.

• By Michael White

Neglected tropical diseases continue to inflict pain and suffering on large portions of the world's population despite the availability of inexpensive cures in the West.

• By Katherine J. Wu

Appointee Brenda Fitzgerald is the former commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health.

• By Francie Diep

Nepalese conservationists and their foreign partners are awakening to a new menace on the horizon: lethal pathogens.

• By Alex Dudley

Claims that screening saves lives are likely exaggerated by focusing too narrowly on saving patients from one particular disease while ignoring others.

• By Nathan Collins

As a new non-invasive technology makes prenatal genetic tests more common, many more pregnant women will have to choose whether or not to have a disabled child.

• By Michael White

The morality of human embryonic stem cell research has long been contentious, but new discoveries could end the controversy.

• By Michael White

Despite research suggesting it would backfire, a new study finds that stories and images of sick children can change minds about the need to vaccinate.

• By Nathan Collins

Computer simulations and a little math could help narrow the search for an outbreak's origins.

• By Nathan Collins

A study finds a new link between mutations and intellectual disability, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore non-genetic factors.

• By Michael White

It's not over just because there aren't any more new cases, a new study shows.

• By Nathan Collins

Habitat destruction isn’t just killing wildlife—it’s killing us.

• By Brian Palmer

A lot depends on the nutritional and health status of disaster victims before disaster struck.

• By Francie Diep

The stakes of the analysis are much higher when lives are on the line.

• By Michael White

New research refutes the claim that European rodents are responsible for the Black Death.

• By Kate Wheeling

Could the brutality of slavery still have an effect on the health of African Americans, who continue to live shorter lives, on average, than whites?

• By Avery August

Medicine, with few exceptions, grows by evolution, not revolution. And geneticists working on complex diseases have a long, difficult road ahead.

• By Michael White