Medicine
For everyone
The field that aims to understand, prevent and treat disease. The works of Hippocrates, Galen and Ibn Sīnā were read as textbooks for centuries. Germ theory, vaccines and antibiotics greatly extended human lifespan over the last two centuries. Today the effect of treatments is mostly tested in controlled clinical trials.
For specialists
Evidence-based medicine treats randomised controlled trials and their systematic reviews as the basis for treatment decisions. Placebo effects, publication bias and reproducibility problems are known limits of this approach. Global average life expectancy was about 32 years in 1900 and about 71 years in 2021.
Claims
- Global average life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900.[1]
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Notable in peer-reviewed journals
- Review: dietary phenolic compounds, health benefits and bioaccessibility — Erick Paul Gutiérrez‐Grijalva, Dulce Libna Ambriz-Pérez, Nayely Leyva‐López et al. · 2026-10-16 · Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición
- Sequential diagnosis with language models — Harsha Nori, Mayank Daswani, Christopher Kelly et al. · 2026-10-22 · Science
- Evaluation of extracts from potato and tomato wastes as natural antioxidant additives — María del Carmen Robles-Ramírez, Ricardo Monterrubio‐López, Rosalva Mora‐Escobedo et al. · 2026-10-15 · Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición
- Human lung organoid modelling of tissue-resident antiviral T cell responses — Joseph K. Rathkey, S. S. Choi, Vincent van Unen et al. · 2026-10-07 · Nature
Turkish-language papers
- Phytochemical Characterization and Antioxidant Potential of Peganum harmala L. Seeds: A Natural Source of Bioactive Compounds. — Muammer Tepe · 2026-03-30 · Türk doğa ve fen dergisi :/Türk doğa ve fen dergisi
- ECG-Based Arrhythmia Classification with an Explainable Two-Stage Hybrid Learning Approach — Ali Arı · 2026-03-30 · Türk doğa ve fen dergisi :/Türk doğa ve fen dergisi
- REHABILITATION APPROACH IN THE TREATMENT OF ADVANCED CONGENITAL LYMPHEDEMA AND LYMPHORRHEA WITH IMPROVED MUSCLE OXYGENATION: A CASE REPORT — Emine Merve Ersever · 2026-03-09 · Acta Medica Nicomedia
- Nitrat Metabolizması ve Fiziksel Aktivite: Sistematik İnceleme — Halil Uçar, Yusuf Buzdağlı, Musa Türkmen · 2026-03-03 · Spor Bilimleri Dergisi Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Preprints (may not be peer-reviewed yet)
- Frequency-Domain Evaluation and Estimation of Semi-Markov Disease Natural History Models — Subiabre, F., Goldhaber-Fiebert, J. D., Alarid-Escudero, F. · 2026-10-28 · medRxiv
- An electronic frailty index for population-level risk stratification in a large health maintenance organization: A cohort study — Yanover, C., Shamir, R. R., Kushnir, S. et al. · 2026-10-28 · medRxiv
- Population-scale genome-wide prioritization of targets for allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide therapy design — Sakaki, R., Newton, L. W., Haque, B. et al. · 2026-10-28 · medRxiv
- Integrating sequence-to-omics predictions and personal multi-omics for rare variant prioritization — Lake, J., Robb, E., Rosa, V. et al. · 2026-10-28 · medRxiv
Sources
- DatasetLife Expectancy. Our World in Dataourworldindata.orgarchive
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Athena contributors. (2026). Medicine. Athena: The tree of human knowledge. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://latifkedi.github.io/athena/en/d/tip/
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