Medicine

The proof is in the poo.

There may come a day when humans take on the form of cyborgs with integrated, robotic parts to enhance our abilities. But long before that, look for "biohybrid" robots...

Cotton swabs aren't actually the most common cause of eardrum rupture, according to the study. Instead, blunt trauma is the leading reason for the injury.

Doctors in Canada performed a life-altering surgery on a fetus still developing inside its mother's womb to correct a spinal defect that would have led to spina bifida, according to news reports.

For one woman in China, the cause of her congestion turned out to be a tooth growing into her nasal cavity.

More than 1,000 years ago, a woman living in the British Isles became horribly disfigured after catching leprosy from an unlikely source: a squirrel, according to a new study.

A medical school in Queensland, Australia, was the recent recipient of a big donation: a diseased liver that weighed more than 26 lbs.

Researchers in Georgia have developed a "microneedle patch" that can deliver the flu vaccine through a person's skin.

Would you be more likely to get your flu vaccine if, instead of getting a shot, you could simply apply a bandage-like patch to your skin?

The story of Henrietta Lacks comes to the screen April 22 as an original movie on HBO.

The Pentagon's research division is betting its high-risk, high-reward programs will change medicine.

Victorian doctors and medical students seeking to understand how human bodies worked in life gained many of their insights by studying them in death.

Have we reached the end of the line for antibiotics?

Why are there more mustaches in top medicine jobs than women?

Artificial hearts are a miracle — if you're an average sized male.

Art, literature and film can also remind us that ethics is subtle, ambiguous and uncertain.