Umbilical blood can be a valuable treatment for rare diseases. But that doesn’t mean you need to pay thousands of dollars to bank your baby’s. In the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood from a...

There are plenty of reasons to head out on a hiking trip or mountaineering expedition.Both outdoor sports get you right into the heart of the natural world – enjoying the sights, sounds, and smells of nature and providing you with the chance to disconnect from the hustle and bustle of the modern...

Hundreds of thousands of deaths, from either tobacco or the pandemic, could be prevented with a single behavioral change. The end state of this pandemic may indeed be one where COVID comes to look something like the flu. Both diseases, after all, are caused by a dangerous respiratory virus that...