GINA KOLATA

Encouraging data from preliminary studies are making some doctors feel optimistic about developing immunizations against pancreatic, colon and breast cancers.

Data from a fertility center showed many women did not get pregnant because of the age at which they froze their eggs and because they…

Dermatologists who specialize in hair loss say that the key ingredient in a topical treatment worked even better when taken orally at a low dose.

Researchers who previously revived some brain cells in dead pigs succeeded in repeating the process in more organs.

The vitamin pills do not prevent bone fractures in most people or protect against many other diseases, adding to questions about medical guidance many now…

Urgent questions arise about how care of pregnant women with cancer will change in states where women are unable to terminate pregnancies

By fishing shards of bacterial DNA from the teeth of bodies in a cemetery, researchers found the starting point for the plague that devastated Eurasia,…

The tests screen for cancers that often go undetected, but they are expensive and some experts worry they could lead to unnecessary treatments without saving…

The study was small, and experts say it needs to be replicated. But for 18 people with colorectal cancer, the outcome led to “happy tears.”

Another patient who had the same treatment did not survive. But the demonstration of the technique could help with other cancers.