Nearly 10,000 experts and students focused on infectious disease research, treatment, and public-health strategy are attending ID Week 2025.

Emerging and trending health topics generate a lot of buzz. But there is considerable variation in how much Americans hear about certain health topics that are in the news these days, according to a ...

Metabolic disorders, including obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, remain among the most pressing global ...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Employees at the National Cancer Institute, which is part of ...

The global population is aging rapidly, with a substantial rise in the proportion of older adults worldwide. Promoting healthy aging has become a critical ...

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the National Institutes of Health has conducted an “ongoing ideological purge of critical research projects” that violates ...

Implementation science has emerged as a dedicated field designed to bridge the gap between research and practice. Students are trained in identifying and developing ways to improve the uptake, ...

Data from the Nature Index reveal the slow erosion of the gender gap in global research publishing over the past decade. But with just 27% of high-quality papers in the natural sciences having female ...

From viral videos to debates over new products, ideas move faster than ever in today’s digital age. Mehmet Aktas, an ...