Major causes have been identified for most common cancers, like liver and lung. But we still haven’t identified one for breast cancer.
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Return-to-learn plans can help students get back to school work without setting back their concussion recovery.
In the ongoing game of regulatory Whack-A-Mole, the amphetamine isomer BMPEA is just the latest stimulant to pop up in the wake of another being banned.
Do you remember where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks? Or about the bombing at the Boston Marathon? Those are flashbulb memories – vivid, detailed and imperfect.
Aneuploidy – when a cell has an irregular number of chromosomes – is a major cause of pregnancy loss. Scientists may have uncovered a gene that increases the risk of aneuploidy.
Last month Burger King took soft drinks off of their kids’ menu. But will making low-fat milk and apple juice the new default options change how kids eat?
If the brain processes words and mathematical symbols differently, why not musical symbols too?
When it comes to food, believing that you have no self-control can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Today, most of us get too little light during the day and too much at night for our circadian rhythm to function at its best.
Given new and relevant information, human beings have an amazing capacity to strengthen weak memories.
Tobacco 21 legislation could mean that many people never start smoking in the first place. Why? The older you are, the less likely you are to start smoking.
Understanding public opinion can help officials target messages during a health crisis. But current survey methods aren’t good at generating representative samples. Can Twitter fill in the gaps?
New research shows that black patients are more likely to have heart transplants at the worst-performing centers. So how do patients choose where to go for surgery?
Alternate day fasting stresses cells, which may make them stronger.
Steinbeck highlights an insight all too often lost on many contemporary poverty fighters around the world: efforts to help sometimes turn out to harm.
The Veterans Health Administration does a very good job of tracking costs for individual hospital stays.
According to a study of Vermont doctors, best practice guidelines for prescribing antipsychotic medication to children are followed only half the time.
Health-care providers need to view the health of young gay men within a broader context of personal health and not solely defined by HIV.
Either or statements about the causes of obesity don’t lead to better policies or solutions. The conversation needs to change, but where do we start?
As digital connectivity increases, personal connectedness can lose out. What is that doing to children?
The company is bowing to pressure to take the food whitener titanium dioxide out of its powdered sugar.
Letting workers have more control over their schedules could help them get more sleep.
Shifting the clocks ahead by an hour can’t have that much of an effect on us, right? According to the experts, losing those 60 precious minutes of sleep can really hurt.
Research shows that what’s most effective is when health-care providers tailor the conversation to address parents’ particular concerns.
It seems that whenever we’re able to push one drug down, a new, but more dangerous synthetic drug, pops up to take its place.