The world’s largest professional psychiatry organization is preparing for the day when biological indicators help diagnose and treat mental illness.

Your time is up, you little shit, I thought. I was going to kill this thing.

Lupus is more common in Black people, and symptoms can be different too. Here's what to look out for and how to treat it.

Veteran Nollywood actress Eucharia Anunobi, on Monday, March 9th, revealed that her son, Raymond Ekwu, died after a student doctor extracted three pints of his blood instead of transfusing him. The ...

A pediatrician examining Annie Smith’s older brother noticed a bruise on the 6-year-old’s leg — which led to a rare and harrowing diagnosis.

Carly Scaduto, 43, was tired of feeling tired. She’d dealt with years of exhaustion that no physical exam or blood test could explain. Still, she refused to give up. After taking matters into her own ...

At most well-child visits, parents expect to hear about height and weight. But another important number is quietly becoming part of routine care: blood pressure. While many people think of high blood ...

MINDY BASARA IN TODAY’S MEDICAL ALERT, METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY IS ONE OF MANY RARE GENETIC DISEASES. IT’S FATAL. HOWEVER, THERE IS A NEW TREATMENT FOR IT IF DETECTED EARLY THROUGH A BLOOD TEST AT ...

A simple blood test might one day serve as a molecular ‘clock’ that predicts not only whether someone will develop Alzheimer’s disease — but when. Blood tests are now approved for Alzheimer’s: how ...

A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier and simpler cancer detection. The technology merges DNA nanotechnology, ...

Each night, Louis-Hunter Kean spiked a fever as high as 104.5. He would sweat through bedsheets and shiver uncontrollably. By morning, his fever would ease but his body still ached; even his jaw hurt.