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Supreme Court arguments over trans health care makes plain how badly we need personalized health care in all of medicine ...

Meredithe McNamara is an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine, a pediatrician, and the co-director of the ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

The heavy-lift New Glenn rocket soared to success, reaching orbit on its highly anticipated inaugural flight but failing to ...

In reaction to—or protest over—the impending U.S. TikTok ban, which will take effect on Sunday if the app is not sold or if ...