Bad Medicine

Artificial intelligence comes of age; pathologists can combine it with their own skills for nearly 100 percent accuracy in finding cancer cells in a biopsy.

Placebos can make people feel better, so why not use them?

Children and teens from poorer families show differences in their brains compared with wealthier children, a new analysis of MRI scans reveals.

Researchers have created a new diet they call the "MIND" diet, which may lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Energy drinks might prime you for heart problems, a new study finds.

We still aren't winning the fight against obesity. In a new series of articles, experts explain what society has done wrong in the battle of the bulge, and what needs to happen now.

Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day will cost a person upwards of $2 million over his or her lifetime, a new study claims. But is that claim true?

The brains of violent criminals who are psychopathic are different from even those of violent criminals who are not psychopathic, new research finds.

People whose cholesterol levels are even slightly high while they are in their 30s are at an increased risk of heart disease later on, researchers say.

Environmental factors such as diet may alter the expression of genes to cause, and reverse diabetes, new research finds.