Walk through any European hospital today and you will encounter the same quiet crisis repeated in ward after ward: fewer staff caring for more patients, many of them elderly and living with multiple ...

The Middle East and North Africa is ageing faster than most of its governments realise, and the region’s long-term care systems are nowhere near ready. That is the central warning of a new c ...

Blood plasma is often described as the most information-rich liquid in the human body, a fluid that carries molecular echoes of nearly every organ and every disease process unfolding somewhere in the ...

One of the most stubborn obstacles in cancer immunotherapy is not the tumor cell itself but the cellular entourage that ...

Deep inside the seeds and roots of Ethiopia’s mung bean plants, researchers have uncovered a collection of bacteria that may reshape how farmers protect and grow crops in some of the world’s tou ...

Bisphenol A, the once-ubiquitous plastic hardener that still lingers in food-can linings, thermal receipts, and countless ...

Radiation therapy has always been a discipline of exquisite precision, a practice in which millimeters and milligrays ...

Fabrics that kill bacteria, shield the skin from ultraviolet radiation, conduct electricity, and even clean themselves under sunlight are no longer the stuff of science fiction. A comprehensive new ...

For decades, microbiologists have treated the anaerobic breakdown of fats into methane as an obligatory team effort. Long-chain fatty acids, the greasy backbone of everything from microbial membranes ...

Every newborn footprint gets recorded, every hearing screen logged, and every heel-prick blood sample sent for testing. Yet one of the most consequential rare diseases a baby can be born with often ...

Anorexia nervosa has long been described as a disorder of thought and behaviour, but a sweeping new analysis suggests that the emotional moment itself may be one of its most powerful engines. A ...

Neurosurgeons have long assumed that removing a brain tumour must be followed by days of inpatient monitoring, but a new ...