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Researchers are only just beginning to really understand anaesthesia awareness.

A new approach to fighting the opioid crisis involves sending letters to doctors after their patients overdose on prescription drugs.

Which studies are actually worth the hype?

Until recently, video games were accused of killing brain cells. Now, researchers are trying to understand how they help players get smarter.

Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual. 

The use of AI within mental health services could be a game-changer.

The opening of jars, while impressive and often used to illustrate octopus intelligence, is not their most remarkable ability.

Whether they’re gas giants or rocky planets makes all the difference for life. Over the past 30 years, we went from not knowing if there were planets like ours around other […]

Traces of heroin and cocaine have been found in the tartar of 19th-century Dutch farmers.

The researchers trained the model on tens of thousands of samples of coughs, as well as spoken words.

Examining the differences between anxiety and COVID-19 symptoms and discussing the possibility of IAD (illness anxiety disorder) during a global pandemic.

An MIT system uses wireless signals to measure in-home appliance usage to better understand health tendencies.

A Cornell Health physician has blended rap and medicine to better educate kids on coronavirus guidelines.

Prior to COVID-19, 45% of people with intellectual disabilities reported feeling lonely.

It turns out these little white lies serve a purpose.

Some experts may worry that AI will depersonalize health care, but others see its potential to deepen relationships.

The Human Diagnosis Project project is building the world's "open medical intelligence" system.

Anxious? Dr. Frankl suggested you take a different view of things.

Can changing diet actually reverse the growth of cancer in the body?

We tend to treat death and dying as a somber and serious event, but what if it doesn't have to be that way?

Almost two-thirds of doctors in the U.S. say they're burned out, depressed, or both. What do we do when the very people charged with safeguarding our health against the effects of burnout are themselves suffering from burnout?

Visiting scholar James Timbie says that the artificial intelligence revolution will involve humans and machines working together, with the best results coming from humans supported by intelligent machines.

Who needs a hole in the head? As it turns out, lots of people in ancient hospitals did. Why was one society so good at keeping people alive after it opened up their skulls?

Free meals turn out to be powerful incentives for prescribing opioids, according to a new letter published in JAMA.

Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital have completed the most complex penis transplant to date, marking the third-ever successful operation of its kind.

Researchers use a cutting-edge technique to restore activity to the fragile X syndrome gene.

Observational skills are critical for doctors and art training helps medical students improve them.

UC Berkeley researchers create a robot that learns by playing and can predict the future of its actions.

Despite doubts from the healthcare industry, Watson recently identified a surprisingly high number of potential cancer treatments for real-life patients.

For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.