A small patch, no larger than a bandage, may soon change how doctors understand the immune system. Instead of relying on blood draws or surgical biopsies, scientists have created a device that ...

In April 2022, my mother-in-law, Karla, went for a routine physical therapy visit for carpal tunnel pain. The clinic was full and nearly turned her away. Only after she insisted that something felt ...

Millions of people in the United States have chronic wounds, including those living with diabetes, patients recovering from burns, post-surgical patients and other people with injuries. For clinicians ...

Nina Notman meets the scientists developing recombinant antivenoms and small molecule inhibitors to save the lives and limbs of snakebite patients, who number in the their hundreds of thousands ...

When patients develop a narrowing or blockage in the bile ducts - the tubes connecting the liver, gallbladder and intestines - physicians must determine whether the cause is cancer or a ...

The same SwRI-developed technology used by the San Antonio Spurs, Air Force and MLB is being explored in a range of medical applications.