The start of a new year is a chance to not only reflect on the past year, but an opportunity to set goals for the year ahead.

How one woman’s discovery led to the prevention of countless birth defects around the world.

We often see the heart and the kidneys as independent organs but the two are far more closely interconnected than you might think.

Predicting outbreaks of a disease, from the passage of the Zika virus to a person’s predisposition to cancer, is crucial to our ability to fight back—and big data is at the front of that battle.

Drugs affect people differently and we’re increasingly understanding why. For many of us, it’s down to our genes.

A quarter-pounder hamburger is meat, wheat, and veg—but it’s mostly meat. Americans eat more meat than anyone else on the planet, but meat is an inefficient food source.

Female contraception has changed the world – Margaret Sanger & Katharine Dexter McCormick fought to make it a reality.

The first month after giving birth can be an overwhelming experience for new mothers. Having the right support in place is vital.

With a regular human genome consisting of 46 chromosomes and around 20,000 genes made up of 3 billion base pairs of DNA, just a slight alteration to our genetic code is enough to cause us disease.

Genome editing is as consequential as it is controversial. Scientists are exploring the possibility of altering genes that cause specific diseases. But even if we can do it, the question is: should we?