He's the first patient outside of a clinical trial to start a new genetic treatment that was shown in clinical trials to cure 88% of people of the hallmark symptoms of sickle cell disease.

After falling for over a decade, the death rate climbed for several years and now is about the same as in 1999.

April 25, 2024 – Getting a standard cholesterol screening may soon involve one more blood test that has been around for decades but is rarely used. Evidence continues to mount showing that the ...

More than 1 million Americans live with Crohn’s, a chronic and sometimes crippling bowel disease that affects the intestines ...

People with multiple sclerosis who drank a medicine containing gold nanocrystals daily for nearly 3 years got better vision, ...

May 1, 2024 – You shouldn’t draw major conclusions about the safety of marijuana amid the recent announcement that federal ...

The surgery, known as RK, was considered a successful tool for correcting vision. But in recent years, many of these patients ...

April 30, 2024 – In recent weeks, COVID-19 forecasters have reported on a new set of variants picked up in wastewater surveillance. Nicknamed FLiRT, they’re threatening to cause a new wave of ...

Although nowhere near the tens of thousands of cases seen in a 2022-23 outbreak, Mpox cases are up the first few months of ...

Weights, aerobics, and … Wegovy? Some in the fitness industry are moving to dispense the popular GLP-1 medications to club ...

May 1, 2024 – Makenna was eager to get an appointment with a gynecologist after moving to a new city and getting what she ...