Sarah Watts

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital made history last week when they successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a human patient for the first time ever.

As post office service slows, so, too, has the delivery of prescription meds.

Despite the fact that abortion is still technically legal everywhere in America, actually obtaining one is getting harder and harder. One reason: the increasing numbers of anti-abortion activists stationed outside the clinics. Reports of trespassing and harassment by these protestors have more than tripled since 2016, making clinic "escorts" more important than ever. Here, three of them tell us their stories.

In 1925, health officials in Alaska came up with a creative solution to save a remote fishing town from a deadly disease outbreak.

Although Jonas Salk has gone down in history for helping rid the world (almost) of polio, his revolutionary vaccine wouldn't have been possible without the world’s largest clinical trial – and the bravery of thousands of kids.

In the 1920s, doctors induced a high fever in patients - so called "fever therapy" - as a way to help them recover from syphilis, though it involved ethical problems.

Joy Milne's unusual sense of smell led Dr. Tilo Kunath, a neurobiologist at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and a host of other scientists, to develop a new diagnostic test for Parkinson's.

Roald Dahl, beloved children's author, lost a child to measles in 1962. His plea shines a light on the danger of this disease as measles outbreaks start to rise within the US in 2024.

Branded content campaign for Pfizer x Upworthy on how research and development in gene therapy has lead to breakthroughs in treating rare disease.

How science has helped us reduce cancer deaths, lengthen lifespans, and improve our quality of life through advances in oncology research.

The past, present, and future of how human beings have built immunity to disease with vaccination.

After a long day of writing, when the kids have been fed and bathed, when the dishes are clean and the laundry is folded, one of my favorite after-dinner rituals is this: I hole up in my room under an electric blanket with my laptop and eat a king-sized Butterfinger bar slowly while I browse Facebook. For a few brief minutes, I am completely at peace.
For a long time, I embarked on this ritual with a little bit of defensiveness (it's not like I'm smoking a pack of cigarettes every night!) and...

In the U.S. abortions are getting increasingly harder for patients to get—and even harder for doctors to perform.

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