MEDICINE

Financially speaking, orthopedists are getting the most out of their medical degrees.

First they began to walk, then could stand on their hind limbs, and eventually they regained full function of all limbs.

Songs like "Stayin' Alive" can guide your tempo when you're trying to save someone's life.

Researchers envision a future in which each patient can have a customized model of her reproductive system for testing responses to medications.

The drug manipulates the expression of a specific gene associated with the disease.

On March 26, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk went on CBS radio to announce his vaccine for poliomyelitis. He had worked for three years to develop the polio vaccine, attacking a disease that killed 3000 Americans in 1952 alone, along with 58,000 newly reported cases

Dental plaque traps bits of food, bacteria, and pathogens. That might be bad news for you, but it’s good news for archaeologists.

Get to know an assortment of under-sung or oft-forgotten scientists whose discoveries and inventions played important roles in saving individual lives—and arguably, entire civilizations.

A sphenopalatine ganglion block involves a small catheter inserted into a patient’s nostril and is already commonly used for adults.

Only three in 1000 deaths are eligible for organ donation, though nearly 120,000 people are currently on transplant waiting lists.

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A London-based fetal imaging research project is developing ways to screen for abnormalities earlier.