health

You can carry a normal weight and still be hiding a risk. Is body mass index telling the full story about cognitive heal...

A daily pill might sound small. The effect could be meaningful. A wide review of randomized trials suggests omega-3 fatt...

Swap the same-old run for a bike ride. Or climb stairs instead of taking the elevator. Small changes. Big implications.A...

Imagine stepping into winter and feeling your skin flare as if it were being stung. Pain. Itchy red plaques. Swelling th...

Imagine a waiting room where blood type no longer decides who gets a kidney. Fast. That’s the promise behind a recent la...

Imagine a tiny cluster of living cells, tucked beneath the skin, that wakes up when your blood sugar rises and quietly p...

Open a window for five minutes. That tiny act can change the chemistry of your living room, the comfort of your lungs, a...

Girls who reach their teens without an autism diagnosis are not necessarily unaffected — they are often simply unseen. T...

Imagine that one-third of a crisis could be stopped before it starts. That is the blunt finding from a sweeping World He...

A familiar respiratory microbe has been found hiding where you least expect it: at the back of the eye. Researchers repo...

Most of us assume the physical slide into frailty waits until our sixties. The data, however, tell a different, sharper ...

Constipation can feel like a small emergency: uncomfortable, inconvenient and oddly persistent. Reach into the medicine ...

Grandparents who roll up their sleeves to feed, play with, or tutor a grandchild may be doing more than supporting famil...

One arm may be visibly broken, but the other is often quietly tired. Many stroke survivors live by that uneasy tradeoff:...

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...