About a third of older men with lower urinary tract symptoms obtained minimal benefit from tamsulosin and might be candidates for deprescribing.Only four patients in this study obtained substantial symptom...

Two executives from the San Francisco-based telehealth provider Done Global were sentenced to years in prison for an alleged $90 million pill-mill scheme involving amphetamine/dextroamphetamine salts (Adderall), the Justice Department...

Particles in ships’ exhaust inadvertently cause cloud brightening, and a similar effect could be employed to engineer the climateNASA’s Earth Obervatory Short-term geoengineering to brighten clouds over the eastern Pacific...

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a rare and aggressive kidney disease characterized by scarring of the glomeruli, has no known cure but treatment options are expanding. The progressive disease, which is...

At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, phase II findings suggested that intratumoral dendritic cell therapy combined with HER2-targeted treatment may enhance immune activity and improve pathologic complete...

Following the American Society of Neuroradiology meeting, MedPage Today convened three leaders in neuro-oncology and brain tumor imaging for a virtual roundtable discussion on the evolving role of advanced MRI...

Toddlers are less likely to wake up at night if dads take part in bedtime routinesTetra Images, LLC/Alamy Dad BrainDarby Saxbe, Bodley Head DID you know that fathers with smaller...

Cecil: The lion and the dentist(UK: Channel 4; US: not available) In 2015, an amateur trophy hunter from the US shot and killed the largest lion in Africa. The vitriol...

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Physics of defecation News editor Alexandra Thompson passes along a press release from the University...

Jimmy Gonzales as Cepheus, Matt Damon as Odysseus and Himesh Patel as Eurylochus in Christopher Nolan’s The OdysseyMelinda Sue Gordon / © Universal Studios “You don’t acquire Homer; Homer acquires...

Anna Maxwell Martin is chilling as Raskova in Star CityApple TV What does the state of sci-fi TV in the first half of 2026 tell us? To be honest, things...

Light micrograph of a section through follicles, which house immature eggs, in an ovary. The immature eggs (orange) are surrounded by fluid-filled cavities (light pink) and granulosa cells (dark pink),...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future issue for healthcare workers. Hospitals, insurers, pharmacy chains, and health technology companies are already rolling out AI tools for documentation, scheduling, workflow...

A study from England showed that 40% of women with ovarian cancer did not have diagnoses until after an emergency hospital admission for symptoms.Emergency diagnoses were associated with severe frailty,...

Limited by the knowledge of his time, the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy imagined that the planets and sun of our solar system orbited Earth. Every new observation that pushed against...

A German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients.A court in Berlin found the 41-year-old man, named only as Johannes M. in...

Share on PinterestResearch shows that there is no link between taking Tylenol during pregnancy and a higher risk of autism and ADHD. Image Credit: Getty ImagesIn September 2025, the Trump...

Is What Is Life? still as impactful today? A scientist is supposed to write within his field of expertise as a matter of noblesse oblige, writes Erwin Schrödinger, one of...

Five sheep have been born via experimental IVF, one of which has produced two offspring of its ownLAURENCE WINRAM Healthy lambs have been born via an experimental form of in...

Polarised light micrograph of crystals of the chemical histamineALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY In most of the body, histamine triggers an immune response, as people with hay fever know only too...