Can more testosterone help people who do not have low levels? Some patients want it, physicians say it sometimes works, and ...

Over the past several years, COVID-19 has surged twice a year — once in the winter and once in the late summer. This pattern seems to be repeating in 2026. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Patients arrive in the emergency department (ED) doubled over in pain and retching uncontrollably, a brew of symptoms physicians have nicknamed “scromiting” — a combination of screaming and vomiting.

Visitors to the Human Longevity Laboratory, part of the Potocsnak Longevity Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, spend up to three hours undergoing a battery of tests.

The federal government is nearly halfway through the 12-month fiscal year (FY) that began on Oct. 1, 2025. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget of $47.2 billion, ...

In January the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made significant changes to the nation’s childhood vaccination schedule. For ...

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the AAMC or its members. In 1994, the year I started my pediatrics internship at Children’s Hospital Los ...

When the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was first introduced in 2006, researchers and clinicians were hopeful that they would finally see a decline in cases of HPV-related cancers. In 2008, more ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on Jan. 26 with new statistics on the flu season thus far. At least 19 million Americans have come down with the flu — and 10,000, including 44 children, have ...

One of the most dire diagnoses for a doctor to deliver to a patient is “pancreatic cancer.” Just 13% of its victims live for five years after being diagnosed, according to the National Cancer ...

Medical school enrollment broke 100,000 students for the first time in 2025, new AAMC data shows. Each year, the AAMC publishes data on the most recent cohort of applicants and matriculants ...

Editor's note: This article was updated on Oct. 6 to reflect new CDC guidance on the COVID vaccine. Each year about this time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on ...