Remember when the latest tech was a pedometer that counted your steps? Those days are long gone. Now, your workout gear can analyze muscle fatigue like a team of PhDs. Wearable sensors track your ...

From robotic surgery performed 7,000 miles away to the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, 2025 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs.Scientists discovered a brain implant ...

From new vaccines to the first drugs of their kind for hard-to-treat disorders, 2023 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs. They offer opportunities for people to protect themselves from ...

American science took a beating this year, with cuts to funding, jobs and credibility. And yet, scientists persisted and made progress. These advances in 2025 spotlight how crucial it is to support ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Juergen Eckhardt leads Bayer’s impact investment unit, Leaps by Bayer. Some of the year's notable breakthroughs include the first ...

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. It has been a tough year for medicine. The U.S. research enterprise has been scrambled by a series of political decisions ...

Live Science's health channel editor makes predictions about the medical breakthroughs and public health shifts to come in 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

Medicine stands at the precipice of an exciting new era. We're closer than ever to achieving functional cures for once-intracable diseases, including HIV. Stem-cell treatments are repairing blinding ...