Nano-Scale 'Dream Team': 3 MIT Professors Use Tiniest Of Tools Against Cancer
Three MIT professors are innovating at the tiniest possible scale — developing tools to see, target and kill cancer cells before they can...
Ask Well: Is it more difficult for an older person to lose weight?
Yes, unfortunately. Although it is possible to lose weight at any age, several factors make it harder to lose weight with age. Even those...
Can minority students change medicine's racial imbalance?
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Eight of Melissa Cornett’s 10 children want to be doctors. The oldest, at 29, hopes to become a family physician;...
A race to get to the U.S. begins; a wave of travelers arrives in Boston, with others to follow
BOSTON — Most of the more than 40 people from Iran who arrived at Logan International Airport on Saturday afternoon were ecstatic, the...
Studies Link Some Stomach Drugs to Possible Alzheimer’s Disease and Kidney Problems
Over-the-counter packages of Nexium, Prevacid and Prilosec tell you to take the pills—known to doctors as proton-pump inhibitors, or...
How researchers are putting the body's own army to work to fight cancer
This piece aired on WBUR Radio and the following was posted on WBUR.org: Richard Murphy’s sinuses were so stuffy that for months he...
Scientists Find a Voice at Massive Rally for Immigrants
BOSTON—Thousands of protestors rallied Sunday in Boston’s Copley Square, outraged over Pres. Donald Trump’s order blocking immigrants...
Critics Blast Star-Studded Advisory Board of Anti-Aging Company
Critics are assailing seven Nobel Prize winners and two dozen other high-profile scientists for lending their names and images to a New...
Aging Is Reversible—at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice
New research suggests it is possible to slow or even reverse aging, at least in mice, by undoing changes in gene activity—the same kinds...
The Anti-Aging Pill
An anti-aging startup hopes to elude the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and death at the same time. The company, Elysium Health, says...
