Health

New York–area chefs are working on the problem. More need to follow their lead.

MIT professor Robert Langer is a prolific American inventor in medicine. His advice? Don’t follow the money, do meaningful work.

Getting a good night’s sleep just took on a whole new meaning.

A new report from the World Health Organization outlines some sobering statistics on the global toll of alcohol consumption.

Some say the proliferation of sex robots could lead to less demand for prostitution, but not all agree.

Explore how alcohol affects your brain, from the first sip at the bar to life-long drinking habits.

The exploding popularity of the keto diet puts a less used veggie into the spotlight.

Despite its prominence in our collective imagination, variations in metabolism play a minor role in obesity.

It turns out the human scalp has an olfactory receptor that seems to play a crucial role in regulating hair follicle growth and death.

Diners consumed 45 fewer calories per meal.

While short-term results are positive, there is mounting evidence against staying in ketosis for too long.

Scientists in Japan have genetically modified chickens to lay eggs containing an extremely valuable protein that helps treat cancer, hepatitis and multiple sclerosis in humans. The cost of one of […]

Ocean Conservancy has collected more than 60 million butts since the ’80s.

It’s been de rigueur for at least 50 years that a daily, small dose of aspirin helps prevent heart attacks. However…

Quarantines are worth the trouble to keep the next pandemic at bay but they need to be applied intelligently.

The surprisingly simple treatment could prove promising for doctors and patients seeking to treat depression without medication.

How does Alzheimer’s disease work?

Canadian author, psychologist, and intellectual Jordan Peterson has an interesting way of overcoming your self-doubt and anxiety: run right into it. Or, rather, write right into it.

Ketosis is known to work wonders in terms of short-term weight loss. But what about the diet’s effects over the long term?

Could Alzheimer’s be prevented with a simple vaccine? This startup posits that it can.

For a drug with zero fatalities and huge money-making possibilities, why is marijuana illegal in the first place? Author Johann Hari runs us through why he thinks it should be legal.

Are hot dogs or hamburgers the healthier option? It’s a question that has plagued many a summer barbecue guest.

Your mother most likely went through a lot to raise you when you were a baby… including getting some of the worst sleep of her life.

We constantly seek new information to keep our mind’s sharp.

Thanks in no small part to the digitization of our social lives, depression is becoming a bigger and bigger issue in western societies. So how do we reverse it?

U.S. drivers faced a 12% greater risk of dying in a car crash on April 20 over the past 25 years. The likely explanation? High drivers.

It neutralized not only the tumor it was injected into but malignancies all over the body.

One patient retained the ability to dress herself, make a simple meal, and even change her plans depending on the weather.

Contrary to what we’ve been told for decades, depression isn’t coming from inside our heads. This author and big thinker tells us that it’s coming much more from the society we live in.

Where does Valentine’s Day come from? Let us introduce you to the festival of Lupercalia, a festival when naked young men and women ran around whipping one another with animal hides.