Medical research plays a vital role in advancing healthcare, improving treatment, and informing public health policies. However, it can be difficult to understand a study or whether it is trustworthy.

Roughly two decades ago, a community-wide reckoning emerged concerning the credibility of published literature in the social-behavioral sciences, especially psychology. Several large scale studies ...

The contribution of nearly 700 Catholic religious sisters to a “groundbreaking” decades-long study on Alzheimer’s and dementia continues to offer important information for maintaining “cognitive ...

A follow-up study to the Women’s Health Initiative finds that hormone replacement therapy is beneficial for women in menopause. The therapy can help relieve symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats.

People increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for medical diagnoses because of how quickly and efficiently these tools can spot anomalies and warning signs in medical histories, X-rays and ...