Medicine

Cases of the fungus that did not respond to antifungal medicine tripled in 2021. It can be deadly, but does not seem to have adverse effects on healthy people.

Djokovic is a foreign citizen who is not vaccinated against COVID-19. Government rules still prevent him from entering the country.

9/11 rescue worker wants the world to see the toll the work took on her body.

For more than a decade, a unique gross anatomy course at Indiana University required students to get to know the family of the donated cadaver they worked on.

Because the case has prompted death threats and protests, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said “less advertisement of this hearing is better.”

Prospect’s inability to pay its bills has previously caused delays in vital supplies and the loss of a police officer, who was permanently stationed outside a medical center.

The announcements follow a recall last month of eyedrops made in India that were linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections.

When your caretakers can’t even get care, something is seriously wrong.

President Joe Biden brought up that cost cap during his annual State of the Union address last month. He called for insulin costs for everyone to be capped at $35.

Since the COVID pandemic began three years ago, its origin has been a topic of much scientific — and political — debate.

The FDA is considering a nonprescription, over-the-counter version of Narcan’s nasal spray for opioid overdoses. But experts worry about affordability.

The at-home nasal swab kit simultaneously tests for COVID-19 and two strains of the flu.

Will Senator John Fetterman's openness about his depression help remove some of the stigma around mental illness?

For a product whose toxic origins trace back to a biological weapons lab in Maryland, Botox has helped normalize cosmetic injectables

A new microneedling technique utilizes a solution based on human stem cells to increase the treatment’s effect. WHYY’s host of The Pulse, Maiken Scott, gave it a try.