For most of human history, a simple scratch could kill you. Childbirth was among the most dangerous things a woman could do. Surgery meant agony, infection, and a coin-flip chance of survival. The ...

Recently, a middle-aged woman came to see me in my ophthalmology clinic because her eyes felt gritty and uncomfortable. She ...

Health-care companies rose as traders bet drug-development breakthroughs and deal activity would continue. Vaxcyte shares surged after the drug maker said its experimental pneumonia vaccine compared ...

Some of the most leading-edge medical breakthroughs are moving faster than the health care system can absorb, panelist after panelist said at the Aspen Ideas: Health conference this week. Why it ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. PHOENIX, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Banner Health today released its 2025 annual report, detailing how Arizona ...

A conversation with Gina Kolata, who covers breakthroughs in medical science. By Terence McGinley Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our ...

Last week, the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) announced a major health breakthrough with VAXIRA, a vaccine treatment for lung cancer. This is a remarkable achievement, made only more ...

HONG KONG, Aug. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2026 Global Health Summit ("GHS 2026"), jointly hosted by New Frontier Group ("New Frontier") and the Hong Kong Investment Corporation Limited ("HKIC"), ...

Medicine is entering a new era of breakthrough science, with innovations once considered out of reach now becoming reality. Researchers are developing therapies that target diseases in entirely new ...

Innovation in life sciences is accelerating, but so are the risks and complexities surrounding it. The companies that succeed will be those that can identify critical dependencies, build resilience ...

Many families have been affected by serious or chronic illness. Whether it is a parent confronting a cancer diagnosis, a grandparent losing ground to Alzheimer’s, a child learning to manage juvenile ...

For most of America’s 250 years, mental illness was largely treated indirectly with medication, or not at all when medication was ineffective. America has been at the forefront of medical innovation ...