Science Friday and KHN ran the numbers on birth control failure.

Five weeks of radiation therapy is just as effective as eight weeks of radiation treatment for men with high-risk prostate cancer, according to new research presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.

People who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six times as likely to be autistic as cisgender people are.

Exposure to air pollution increases the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization, according to a new study.

The inclusion of children in medical research is important to the development of treatments, however, its ethics may raise eyebrows if not careful.

Researchers have uncovered in Cell Genomics a network of proteins that restore hearing loss in zebrafish.

in a study (9/6) published in JAMA Neurology, researchers found that "people between the ages of 40 and 79 who took 9,826 steps per day were 50% less likely to develop dementia within seven years," and that "people who walked...at a pace over 40 steps a minute...were able to cut their risk of dementia by 57% with just 6,315 steps a day." Those who walked "at a very brisk pace of 112 steps per minute for 30 minutes a day" had the largest reduction in dementia risk.

The Developing and Nationalizing Key (DANK) Cannabis Research Act -- would set a federal marijuana research agenda and create a designation for universities to carry out cannabis studies with federal grant money, and protect them against federal sanctions for obtaining marijuana from state-legal dispensaries for study purposes.