Health

One injection can look the same as the next. The outcome, though, can be very different. For some older adults, the immu...

Imagine a microscopic parcel wearing a sugar disguise, slipping past the brain's guarded gates and delivering a life-cha...

Put simply: the same high-fat, low-carb diet that seemed to protect one part of the gut can spur tumor growth in another...

Imagine treating tender, bleeding gums with a snack. It sounds unlikely, but a new Japanese trial suggests that twice-da...

Imagine an egg suspended in a soft, protein-rich jelly. That gelatinous scaffold, the extracellular matrix, does more th...

Can the time on your plate matter as much as the calories on it? A team of Spanish researchers suggests the answer is ye...

When a postdoc in Barcelona first looked through the microscope and saw bright, spherical clusters, no one expected they...

Horace Fletcher once chewed a scallion 722 times before swallowing. He believed food should be almost liquid before it s...

A routine blood glucose reading may reveal more than your diabetes risk—it could hint at how fast your brain is aging. A...

They leave the hospital with food on their plates and rules in their heads. Yet too many return within months. About 40 ...

Depression may wear two very different faces. One shows up tired and heavy. The other is restless and lean. Which one yo...

She went back to her garden. Slowly at first, then with the same careful pleasure she had before the pain took over. Cyn...

Think Alzheimer’s always starts with forgetting names and places? That’s the story we tell. New work from Texas A&M ...

One injection. Three months of protection. And for a small number of women, a question that has echoed through courtroom...

A tiny, naturally occurring mouse virus can create damage that looks eerily like Parkinson's — and the harm hangs around...

Some families seem to carry a secret clock that ticks more slowly. Diseases show up years later. Minds stay sharp. Joint...

Imagine a hidden plumbing network inside your skull, only active at night, flushing away the cellular detritus of daily ...

Imagine a blood test showing half the testosterone your grandfather carried. Startling, right? That is the signal emergi...

Imagine standing at a crossroads with two signs: one promises a lower chance of heart attack, the other warns of muscle ...

Picture a 75-year-old who still lifts boxes without wincing, remembers names at family dinners, and walks uphill without...