More girls are hitting puberty at eight or earlier. Researchers are exploring the causes, the consequences and what should be done.

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Women now outnumber men in many graduate and professional schools. Here's why the gender shift in graduate education is a ...

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Diabetes remains one of the most common chronic diseases in the world, and it often develops asymptomatically in its early ...

Members of the all-female medical staff at the Heal Veterinary Clinic in Watertown, Massachusetts. Women now outnumber men in veterinary school by four to one. Credit: Lucy Lu for The Hechinger Report ...

A simple change in how primary care clinics approach weight management is delivering big public health wins. PATHWEIGH lets ...

A research team led by Dr. Rinku Majumder from LSU Health New Orleans has published a groundbreaking study in the Journal of ...

The announcement follows several prominent cases of Army doctors taking indecent liberties with patients behind closed doors.

This encyclopedic article outlines evidence-based laboratory tests that are most useful for establishing individualized ...