MIT neuroscientists have found evidence that the brain’s ability to control what it’s thinking about relies on...
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The theory that education protects against Alzheimer’s disease has been given further weight by new research from...
Blessing from the Medicine Man, Howard Terpning®, 2011 / The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. Native American concepts of health...
Image by Pablo Blasberg As daylight saving time looms, researcher sheds light on health effects of not...
As many as 70 million Americans may not be getting enough sleep. Men get fewer hours of...
Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut...
Teeth fossils with evidence of dental lesions from Australopithecus africanus. Ian Towle, Author provided Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different...
Bloodletting was treatment for infection in the past. Wellcome Library, London, CC BY While some ancient therapies proved effective enough...
Scene from frontispiece to EPB/47966/A: Jane Sharp, The compleat midwife’s companion: or, the art of midwifry improv’d...
Just five more minutes … can a coffee before a nap really help you pay back your...
Many reasons that weren’t explored may account for the findings that women who drank coffee decreased their...
Nobuhiro Asada/Shutterstock.com A new analysis shows that coffee is associated with a host of positive health effects. By Dr. Robin Poole / 11.22.2017 Specialist...
Coffee’s usefulness doesn’t have to end here. Yanadhorn/Shutterstock.com Plenty of cafes these days will let you take home...
What will it take to finish polio off in the last three countries where it persists? AP Photo/B.K....
A prisoner looks out a window on March 26, 2015, from Zhdanivskaya prison in Ukraine, were TB...
Nurse B.K. Morris gives a flu shot to Winifred Quinn during a press event on the flu...
By (left-to-right) Dr. Gerardo Chowell, Dr. Cecile Viboud, and Dr. Lone Simonsen / 03.05.2018 Chowell: Professor...
Social isolation is linked to increased blood pressure and depression. By Dr. Jed Magen / 02.26.2018 Associate...
Children at a school in Antananarivo, Madagascar, during a plague outbreak, Oct. 3, 2017. AP Photo/Alexander Joe By...
The basic chemistry of hair dyes has changed little over the last century, but what do we...
Trapped by the Cold War and scarred after a failed revolution, Hungary fought one of its greatest...
A page from the journal of Henry Walsh Mahon showing the effects of scurvy, from his time...
Poseidon taking chocolate from Mexico to Europe, a detail from the frontispiece to Chocolata Inda by Antonio Colmenero de...
Is there real science in the spiritualism of meditation? By Dr. Jo Marchant / 06.30.2014 Geneticist It’s...
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Elisa Lazarri / 01.16.2018 Postdoctoral Associate in Biomedical Sciences Cornell University “Rampant” and “elderly”...
In 2005, Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a Center for Disease Control Microbiologist, examines recreated 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus...
Symptoms of schizophrenia and related disorders likely arise from a perplexing interplay of social, environmental, psychological, and...
In the age of social media, fears and rumors about outbreaks and epidemics can quickly spread out...
Photo courtesy of PREDICT/Mike Cranfield Two ambitious projects aim to understand when and how the next human...
Out of the blue, Vanessa Potter lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled – hearing and touch...