We increasingly hear pleas from those who are suffering agonizing pain not only about pain management but also about ways to end their lives.

February, I decided to leave a job I had loved as a science writer at the NIH, in large part because it seemed as if I would ...

Legionnaires’ disease is caused by Legionella bacteria occurring naturally in freshwater environments and complex air conditioning cooling systems.

In severe cases, children can develop acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE), a dangerous form of brain damage linked to ...

Measles is a disease that should be a relic of the past with vaccination. But now a child is dead from a disease that is ...

The obesity diagnosis has always been controversial. Now, a new clinical definition is raising even more questions.