Health

Hope remains for ongoing trials that target amyloid protein clumps, but some studies aim to stave off symptoms, not treat them

New study could help explain a rise in the disease among young people

New techniques wring subtle signals from data already produced by scanners

Provocative study looked at more than 700,000 births over more than a decade

Scientists probe cellular hideouts for HIV and show that CRISPR can still cut the AIDS virus from DNA in monkeys

Doctors and researchers are working to better understand the long-term complications of chemotherapy and radiation, and even prevent them

Compound shows promise in human cells and in pigs with the disease

Mixed results of aggressive treatment to curb new infections suggest “ending AIDS” will be harder than expected

A third of Americans are considered prediabetic—but many may be better off without treatment

Would-be oral drug protects mice from lethal flu challenges

Chimeric antigen receptor–T cell therapy—already approved for some cancers—might help human patients with the autoimmune disorder

New evidence questions the assumption that plague bacterium didn’t cross the Sahara

An eclectic group of scientists has taken a data-intensive approach to the challenge of building a health care system in Madagascar

“London patient” also has long-term disappearance of virus after stem cell transplant

Meetings of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine committee have become the latest front in a national battle over immunization

An eclectic group of scientists sets out to bring health care to one of the world’s poorest countries