Disease

This week, the General Assembly of the United Nations is meeting in New York.

Precision medicine, the promise of highly targeted, customized care is so alluring, but much of its hope and attraction is lost in the translation from science to practical care.

Caravaggio (1571-1610) was an artist who famously painted various biblical scenes, some of which were quite violent.

It's every sports fan's worst nightmare: Your favorite player suffered a torn ACL and is out for the season.

Cancer remains a frightening diagnosis. But for a growing number of cancers, we feel comfortable talking about remission or long-term survival; it is not the automatic death sentence of 30 or 40 years ago.

The British tabloids are running wild with the story of a 20-year-old woman who had her thumb amputated because of a rare form of cancer. The cause, we are told, was her incessant nail-biting.

Plasma surrounds the white and red blood cells accounting for slightly more than half of your total blood volume. It is the home of the “secretome,” a host of proteins that serve as inter-cell communicators.

Nothing controls our blood sugar as well as the pancreas, that should be no surprise.

Anti-vaxxers insist that measles is just a harmless childhood infection. After the Disneyland outbreak, anti-vaxxers derided public health concerns by referring to it as "Mickey Mouse Measles." The facts indicate otherwise.

A new report published in BMJ Journal: Injury Prevention opts to reframe how we interpret data on preventable, premature deaths by using an “en