A child's years-long medical mystery was finally solved.

Medicine has come a long way, but not everything fits neatly into a textbook. There are still some conditions and strange ...

(CNN) — Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they couldn’t figure out why. A single clot alone can be lethal; but the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — At 18, Austin Pruitt was an honor student, star baseball player and classical pianist. Then a piercing pain began behind his eyes. His father, a surgeon, first took him to an eye ...

Figure 1, the Instagram-like social network for doctors to share medical images, and CrowdMed, a platform for crowdsourcing medical mysteries, have been compared to each other since they were both ...

For half a century, a tiny quirk on the surface of red blood cells has puzzled doctors and put a small group of patients at risk during transfusions. That mystery has now been resolved with the ...