Scientists have long searched for ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. Chief among these ...

Located just a few hours’ drive from the Canadian border, Missoula, Mont. is not known for sweltering temperatures. And yet heat waves are becoming more common in the mountainous region due to climate ...

Today, 52% of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI in daily life, compared with just 10% who say they are more excited than concerned.

Since the Trump administration froze $1.5 billion in National Institute of Health (NIH) funding, students, researchers and universities have scrambled to adjust. While the NIH announced a partial ...

New research on anesthesia has yielded important results about the physical basis of consciousness in the brain. For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: ...

National survey data shows loneliness is widespread on college campuses—and linked to belonging, mental health and ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Alyssa Tapley ...

A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the Trump administration’s Department of ...

In the world of biomedical research, one institution towers over the rest—the National Institutes of Health, or NIH. It can be argued that it’s largely because of this 138-year-old government agency—a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. For most Americans, alcohol has historically been perceived as ...