Medical News

An expert panel wrote new guidelines that recommend the best time to feed peanut-based food to children. When should parents give babies peanut-containing food to prevent food allergy?

A 6-year-old girl suffered nicotine poisoning after accidentally being given liquid nicotine stored in a medicine bottle. The child's ordeal opens up questions about the safety of e-cigarette storage and use.

Specialists issue vaccination recommendations against flu, since more cases have been recorded. The virus, A H3N2, is best avoided through vaccine and not other alternative means.

Marie Myung Ok-Lee shares how cannabis use has changed the life of her son with autism and a painful gut disease. She calls it a 'miracle' after seven years of successful treatment.

Theranos has announced that it will lay off 155 employees, or 41 percent of its workers. What are the plans of the embattled blood-testing company?

What if wounds could heal without scarring? Researchers want to turn that into reality and they're actually a step closer after learning how to leverage fat cells in the wound-healing process.

As temperatures begin to drop, homeowners increasingly rely on space heaters to provide warmth. Here are expert tips to avoid the potential dangers of space heaters, and to safely heat your home amid frigid temperatures.

A girl in Detroit died just a few hours after having tonsillectomy, a common childhood procedure for sleep-disordered breathing and tonsillitis. The medical report suggests of possible reasons behind the child's untimely...

Earlier this week, a story begging to go viral fell onto writers' laps: We have a new organ called the mesentery, which is a broad, fan-shaped fold that lines the guts. Here at Discover we pounced on the story, and so di...