Health experts explain the rising number of cases and what you need to know.

Regular screening, beginning at age 45, is the key to catching colorectal cancer early.

The share of U.S. women who must travel an hour or more to get care has doubled.

Breakthrough research addresses a long-standing question in pulmonary medicine about whether modern ventilators overstretch lung tissue: They do.

First impressions of compatibility and popularity stick with us, study suggests.

UC Irvine team demonstrates the adult brain has the potential to partially recover from inherited blindness.

Scientists hope to create a global hub for understanding and accelerating knowledge and application of human milk.

Even as they achieve more power and capability on the job, middle-aged women can be held back by a perceived lack of “niceness,” new research finds.

UCSF researchers rescue cognitive function by blocking molecular stress response.

A Santa Barbara Foundation grant underscores the community need for racially-informed therapy services.

During October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a breast cancer survivor and UC San Diego Health employee shares her personal experiences from the moment of diagnosis and receiving life-saving care, to the important lessons she has learned along the journey.

Depressive realism has held sway in science and popular culture for decades, but a rosier outlook may be overdue.