medicine

Photo credit: Lesja Jemeljanova via Facebook – Lucas Jemeljanova poses with his family a year before being diagnosed with cancer

Innovation, Science

A 13-year-old boy has become the first person to be cured of this deadly brain cancer

Sarah Watts

4/7/2026
Homeowners celebrate the completion of their new home in Cambodia's Siem Reap Province alongside Habitat for Humanity volunteers and staff.

In Partnership With Habitat For Humanity →

Culture, Family

A safe, stable home can change lives for the better. Here’s how Habitat for Humanity wants to make that possible for everyone.

Sarah Watts

3/25/2026
Photo credit: National Library of Wales/Wikimedia Commons & Canva Photos – A guy says he can tell when he's getting sick based on the taste of his pee. Ancient doctors would probably agree.

Democracy, History, Popular

A guy went viral for tracking the taste of his own urine. Doctors used to do it all the time.

Evan Porter

2/11/2026
Photo credit: Image by sasint/Canva – Surgeons prepared to separate conjoined twins in Brazil using virtual reality.

Innovation, Science

Conjoined twins separated with the help of virtual reality

Annie Reneau

11/4/2025
Innovation, Popular, Science

People 100 years ago died so much younger. 14 major reasons explain everything.

Upworthy Staff

10/3/2025
Photo credit: Canva – There are many fields of medicine doctors can specialize in.

Popular

20 doctors share their favorite ‘health hack’ from their specialty

Annie Reneau

6/21/2025
Photo credit: Canva – Many would agree that gynecology visits could be improved upon.

Health, Popular, Women’s Health

A gynecologist asked women how visits could be improved. Thousands responded, in detail.

Heather Wake

6/19/2025
Photo credit: Canva Photos – A female doctor was confused for a nurse after taking a male colleague's advice on how to introduce herself.

Community, Joy

A patient nominated her for a prestigious nursing award. One problem: She’s a doctor.

Evan Porter

5/9/2025
Photo credit: Canva Photos – Array

Innovation, Science

7 mindblowing medical breakthroughs that could occur in our lifetime

Evan Porter

3/12/2025
Photo credit: Canva – We know a lot, but we clearly don't know everything.

Health, Wellness

Doctors share bizarre things about the human body that we still can’t explain

Heather Wake

3/11/2025
Photo credit: Canva Photos – You have to see it to believe it.

Health, Popular, Wellness

Impossible-sounding surgery cures blindness by implanting a patient’s own tooth in their eye

Evan Porter

3/7/2025
Photo credit: India Marshall – Array

Identity

A Black woman came out of surgery with more braids than before. Here’s why that matters.

Upworthy Staff

3/1/2025
Photo credit: Image by sasint/Canva – Surgeons prepared to separate 3-year-old conjoined twins in Brazil using virtual reality.

Innovation, Science

Conjoined twins with fused brains separated; surgeons practiced for months in virtual reality

Annie Reneau

11/5/2024
Photo credit: CBS News|YouTube – Woman is cured after trying to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Health

Doctors discover and cure woman’s mystery mental illness after attempting to jump off Golden Gate Bridge

Jacalyn Wetzel

5/17/2023
Photo credit: CBS News/YouTube – Jennifer Henderson smells coffee for the first time in two years.

Health

Woman breaks down in tears at being able to smell coffee after long COVID treatment

Annie Reneau

4/19/2023
Photo credit: Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash – "Awake surgery" allows brain surgeons to see the functioning parts of the brain to avoid during surgery.

Innovation, Popular, Science

Man was awake and playing the saxophone throughout his entire 9-hour brain tumor surgery

Annie Reneau

1/24/2023