Researchers at Academia Sinica have developed the first population-specific polygenic risk score (PRS) models for people of ...

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Jijing Wang, Ph.D., and Hyun-Sik Yang, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Mass General Brigham, are the lead and senior ...

Many high school seniors across the country are in the throes of college applications—often a high-stakes, anxiety-ridden ...

For many years, older adult patients who fractured their hip typically spent most of their recovery time with orthopedic ...

The Trump administration has made deep cuts to the main federal agency focused on fighting opioid addiction, potentially ...

Whooping cough is making a major comeback in the United States, with sharp increases now seen in Texas, Florida, California, ...

How can we monitor the cross-species transmission of avian flu? The answer is FluWarning, a digital system that reports ...

In the United States, approximately 14.7 million children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 19 are living with ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered a surprising link between a tiny cellular engine and the way cancer cells ...

All starting from the same DNA, neurons ultimately take on individual characteristics in the brain and body. Differences in ...

While artificial intelligence technology is increasingly being used—formally and informally—to support medical diagnoses, its ...