health

A patient’s brain showed activity for nearly 10 minutes after death, baffling doctors and prompting the need for further research.

Scientists identify key compounds that may help prevent brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s as well as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

A spoonful of sugar has always made the medicine go down – but shouldn’t we be asking whether we need this type of medication in the first place?

Despite decades of research, there is no reliable vaccine for malaria. Dr. Philip Eckhoff lays out the strategies and collaborations required to eradicate this disease and the half a million lives it takes each year.

Bill and Melinda Gates lay out the key accomplishments of their philanthropic foundation in response to Warren Buffet. 

A large new study finds a relationship between consumption of hot red peppers and mortality.

Your willpower is a muscle that can be trained. Here is a wealth of scientific information to help you understand your behavior and engineer a successful health and weight-loss plan.

Just like alcohol, nicotine and other narcotics, sugar tickles our dopamine receptors in just the right way, inspiring our brain’s reward system. How will this end for us?

Today, a person’s organs will be harvested, whether or not their family is against it.   

Researchers at the American Chemical Society examine whether or not cough medicine has scientific merit. 

Scientists create a portable device that can detect 17 diseases, including 8 different cancers, straight from a person’s breath.

Hans Rosling was a physician and statistics superstar who advised world leaders and tech tycoons.

“Lifelong learning is extremely important,” says Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel, “and the more we learn about life span the more important we realize it is.”

Philip Morris is looking to wind back manufacture of its traditional cigarettes in favor of e-cigs. Why? Because the younger demographic is hooked. 

Scientists at the food giant reportedly found a novel way of altering the molecular structure of sugar.   

Most of the foods we consume are created for the supermarket shelf, not for our health, says psychiatrist Drew Ramsey. But you can boost your brain function and overall well-being with this one very low-tech, analogue tool: your grocery list.

A new study shows that cerebral blood flow within the left and right hippocampus significantly decreases after just 10 days of without exercise.

1% of all Google searches are health queries. Cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken explains how artificial intelligence diagnostics lead to psychosomatic symptoms, and potentially explain the fourfold increase in iatrogenic death in the US since 1999.

Brief bursts of intense exercise give the same health benefits as a long moderate workout.  

“Rage Yoga” is a new yoga movement that includes drinking beer, yelling out obscenities and a heavy metal soundtrack.