Health

A NASA-led study suggests the stress of spaceflight seems to trigger various types of herpes to reactivate in astronauts.

A new method of growing mini-brains produces some startling results.

The issues that determine your health go way beyond seeing your doctor.

Though eggs are back on the menu, some are trying to rewrite the script.

The blood of horseshoe crabs is harvested on a massive scale in order to retrieve a cell critical to medical research. However, recent innovations might make this practice obsolete.

Love to drop F-bombs? Thank the shift to agriculture.

A recent study used MRIs to study the changes in brain activity when trained method actors responded to questions in and out of character.

A bill in New York would let older kids get vaccinations against their parents’ wishes.

100 years ago, you could expect to live to 54. Our luxurious, 80-year-long lives come at a cost.

Using a new process, a mini-brain develops retinal cells.

Access to trauma care is a race issue. It shouldn’t be.

Just because the keto diet is an effective weight-loss tool doesn’t mean everyone should try it.

The answer can be found several thousand years ago, in the Roman city of Cyrene.

More vaccine-autism facts for the fact-averse.

The Oedipal complex, repressed memories, penis envy? Sigmund Freud’s ideas are far-reaching, but few have withstood the onslaught of empirical evidence.

Recently, “the London patient” became the second person in history to be cured of HIV. Now, “the Düsseldorf patient” appears to be the third, with the possibility of more on the way.

The quick-acting drug could usher in a new era of treatment for depression.

The promising news comes 12 years after the “Berlin patient” became the world’s first person to be cured of the deadly virus.

Cookie sales don’t lie.

Surprise, surprise: The U.S. isn’t even close to the top of the list.

Scientists are developing vaccines for migraines and sciatica (back pain) – a win in the war against the overprescription of opioid drugs.

Eating a doughnut isn’t the only way you can go wrong on the keto diet.

Turns out pushups are more telling than treadmill tests when it comes to cardiovascular health.

We may never have to get more than one flu shot again.

An emphasis on personal responsibility might explain why conservatives tend to be in better physical health than liberals.

What have hospitals done for us lately? Actually, quite a lot.

One flew east, one flew west, eight shrinks flew into the cuckoo’s nest.

Soon, parents may be able to prescribe music to their kids to help them focus.

The assumption “that without memory, there can be no self” is wrong, say researchers.

The keto diet can help with weight loss, but at what cost?