When doctors start relying on AI tools to help diagnose cancer, their manual detection skills atrophy. The consequences can be dire.

Scientists discovered that the signal linking between our hearts and brains has the telltale sign of quantum entanglement. Now what?

Our nearly inevitable cyborg overlords may have a lot more squish and atomic scale wiring than we were taught to expect by science fiction.

Thanks to science fiction we're all familiar with the term cyborg, but what it means is actually a lot less defined than it appears at first glance.

A strain of salmonella immune to antibiotics of last resort has been found in the United States. This should be a wakeup call for both Big Pharma scientists and government regulators.

A new breakthrough from Israel shows that while we still have a long way to go before we can 3D print organs on command, we're definitely headed in the right direction.

A woman who inherited a rare genetic mutation is giving doctors and scientists an unprecedented glimpse in how we process pain, fear, and anxiety, and how we could treat all three.

Perhaps the worst thing about Theranos is not the lies, the fraud, or the failure. It's that the company and its portable lab could have been salvaged and improved lives if its CEO didn't drown in her own hype.

Today's office and gig culture are glorifying workaholism and a non-stop "hustle ‘till you make it, sleep when you're dead" attitude. It's not just socially toxic. It's damaging to your health and psyche.

Politicians and the public want short-term solutions to the opioid epidemic. But they aren't tackling its root cause: legitimate chronic pain.

Marijuana appears to have real medicinal value, but to determine what it can really do, we have to go beyond anecdotes from medical pot users and do far more rigorous studies.

Giving terminally ill patients a chance to try experimental drugs also means protecting them from scammers.

Years of constant nagging about growing antibiotic resistance and its dire consequences, the public and industry still act as if they're blissfully unaware and are overusing antibiotics at an alarming rate.

If you didn't want the COO of one the world's top hospitals to sound like Jenny McCarthy on a rampage, unfortunately, you're out of luck.

Maybe a medical conference is not the best place to elevate the profiles of snake oil salespeople...