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In the 1835 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea,” a princess is deemed authentic because of her sensitivity to a pea placed under 20 mattresses on her bed. New research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has found that like the fabled princess, cancer cells can sense a layer of cells beneath the top collagen layer on which they normally travel, while normal cells cannot.

Juul agreed to pay $462 million to six states and the District of Columbia to settle charges that it violated numerous laws in marketing tobacco products to youth, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Around 5,500 people with severe developmental disorders now know the genetic cause of their condition, thanks to a major nationwide study in the U.K. that will help improve diagnosis across the world.

New technologies that can capture subtle changes in a patient’s voice may help physicians diagnose cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms begin to show, according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher who led a study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring.

A large clinical trial of more than 8,700 patients published in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that the sex of a donor has no effect on the survival of recipients of red blood cell transfusions.

Australia is currently experiencing the longest break between infection peaks since omicron arrived in late 2021 and community-wide transmission took off.

“I don’t listen to adults when it comes to this sort of thing,” a 17-year-old told me.

In the year 2000, Dutch scientists went on a mission of exploration—not to discover lands or riches, but to identify unknown causes of acute respiratory infections.

From 2016 to 2020, there was an increase in the rate of hepatitis C virus infection in mothers giving birth, followed by a decrease from 2020 through 2021, according to the April 11 National Vital Statistics Reports, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Pregnancy rates in the United States suffered a steep decline during the last decade, new government data shows.