A bipartisan congressional advisory commission identified four barriers keeping rare disease therapies from patients and urged an all-of-government response.

Senate Finance Democrats released a request for information on health coverage reform, with responses due October 2. Here is what an RFI does.

Researchers have created the most complete genetic profile of the brown rat to date, according to a UTHealth Houston-led team, paving the way for scientists to more accurately investigate genetic links to conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure and stroke.

For people living in the northern hemisphere, this summer has been beset by deadly wildfires across parts of Europe, the U.S. and Canada. In the U.K., more than 21,000 hectares (52,000 acres) had already burned by late July 2026 across 66 fires larger than 30 hectares (74 acres), while England and Wales recorded their driest July in nearly two centuries and many areas moved into official drought.

Complex health care policies are often challenging to implement. That's a reality states across the country will deal with as new Medicaid work requirements are rolled out next year.

Glioblastoma remains one of the deadliest cancers, with limited treatment advances and tumors that often resist radiation and chemotherapy. New research from The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center–Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute points to SET as a potential target for making glioblastoma cells more vulnerable to treatment.

Diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have increased in many countries across all age groups, according to our latest review. We have also shown that prescriptions for ADHD treatments have seen similar increases across all age groups.

The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability to think outside the box, a new study in mice shows. The finding by biologists at Emory University was published in Science Advances.

Most cancer deaths are caused not by the initial tumor but by the spread of cancer cells to distant organs in the process called metastasis. Since it occurs at the cellular level, the earliest stages of metastasis are difficult to observe in patients. A new study, published in Science, has made headway in understanding this process by mapping how some cancer cells survive in a new organ, even when most are eliminated by the immune system.

In science, the suffix "phage" means to devour. Thus, the name bacteriophage might conjure images of tiny creatures that "eat" bacteria. While that conception isn't 100% scientifically accurate, bacteriophages are lethal killers of bacteria nonetheless, and scientists are excited about engineering phage DNA as a path to new antibiotics.