Blood clots, or thrombosis, especially in the legs (DVT), pose serious health risks. Extended inactivity, trauma, medical ...

In 2025, by my count, there are over 650 words with some sort of medical significance that have lexicographic anniversaries.

Like people, words have birthdays. My definition of the birthday of a word is the year in which it first appeared in a ...

Why we have body parts we don't need is simple ... we've come a long way. Medical shows always have a scene where doctors must remove someone's spleen. While it helps combat infection, according ...

Our new study explored a different possibility – that laws about bodily damage are rooted in something universal about human nature: shared intuitions about the value of body parts. Do people across ...

Do people across cultures and throughout history agree on which body parts are more or less valuable? Until now, no one had systematically tested whether body parts are valued similarly across ...

Our new study explored a different possibility – that laws about bodily damage are rooted in something universal about human nature: shared intuitions about the value of body parts. Do people ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our ...

The carbon that is a key component of the human body—and all other lifeforms on Earth—may have traveled outside the galaxy after being created before returning on a cosmic "conveyor belt," an ...

Learn about how we are engaging our international partners on COVID-19 health products issues. The Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) is an internationally recognized set of terms ...