Health

A small, daily tablet can save a life — and sometimes it can also cause muscles to burn, cramp or fail. For roughly one ...

They will test time inside the eye. Short sentence. Bold ambition.Life Biosciences, a Boston-based startup, has secured ...

Blood Clues: Detecting Parkinson's Before SymptomsWhat if a routine blood draw could spot Parkinson's disease long befor...

Imagine turning on the brain's drain for a few minutes and watching the sludge flow out. It sounds almost poetic. Yet a ...

Think family trees are just about shared looks and heirlooms? Think again. New research suggests our genetic code may pu...

Imagine stopping Alzheimer’s before the wreckage begins. Short of a cure, that’s the landscape researchers are trying to...

People often mutter to themselves when wrestling with a problem. It feels odd when a machine does the same, but that ver...

Scientists are looking beyond the bathroom scale. New MRI analyses suggest that where fat accumulates in the body may be...

Imagine a molecule from the bacterium that causes cholera quietly finding its way into a tumor and tipping the balance a...

A vaccine that you inhale rather than receive in the arm has just shown the kind of promise that changes how we think ab...

Imagine a silent saboteur at the very threshold of life: it does not destroy embryos outright, but it muffles the conver...

A simple prescription — about 150 minutes of brisk activity each week — may do more for the brain than most of us expect...

People often chalk up forgetfulness to "just getting older." But what if aging is less a single culprit and more a choru...

Invisible, nanoscale bubbles released by cells are emerging as key players in how cancer travels through the body. By re...

Nike and other companies are pitching a new claim: your footwear can do more than cushion or support — it can nudge your...

Bamboo is cropping up in nutrition studies and food trends alike: packed with protein, fiber and micronutrients, its sho...

A genetic study of more than a quarter-million people suggests a surprising link between vitamin B1 (thiamine) metabolis...

Researchers have uncovered a common genetic thread linking eight major psychiatric conditions, revealing how certain gen...

Stiff knees, sore hips and constant joint ache are often accepted as a normal part of getting older. But mounting eviden...

Laboratory research suggests a single experimental compound could act on two leading causes of death: metabolic dysfunct...