
Super Bowl Sunday's Food Needs Work
A public health advocate determined how much exercise is required to burn off various typical big game foods.
A public health advocate determined how much exercise is required to burn off various typical big game foods.
Bears’ gut summer bacteria are more diverse and include species that tend to promote energy storage than are the bacteria that live in them during their hibernation.
Experiment confirms that targeting senescent cells could treat age-related diseases
U.K. regulators grant permission to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology in embryos for early-development research
At a Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health forum on diet and health, Walter Willett, chair of the school's nutrition department, talked about benefits and risks associated with antioxidant supplements...
State of the art help for chronic sinus infections
The risk of having a child with autism quadruples for mothers with both conditions, but the reason for connection remains unclear, study says
This animation guides us through the immune pathways involved in the disease, from the first signs of self-reactive immune cells to joint damage and other symptoms. This article was reproduced with permission and was first published on January 25, 2016...
We all know (or were) the kid who makes us wish for the invention of a Ritalin blow dart. But is it a good idea to put kids on psychiatric meds? And once they’re on, how long is long enough?...
Bitter taste receptors are not only on the tongue but throughout the body, where they defend us against microbial invaders
This common behavior in eating disorders may be indicative of deeper problems
The death rate among Americans who have lived to age 100 or older has decreased
A Californian is the latest in a string of pregnant women potentially exposed to the tropical virus
Proposed changes to the Nutrition Facts label include a separate line for added sugars. Critics argue that all sugars are the same. Who is right?
At a Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health forum on diet and health, Walter Willett, chair of the school's nutrition department, said that adoption of more healthful eating habits even late in life still has benefits...
Journalist Jo Marchant explores surprising new research into curing the body with the mind
The number of reported Lyme disease cases in the U.S. has more than tripled since the late 1990s
Sophisticated computational techniques make it possible to analyze gene samples from all the bacteria in the gut at once to take a census of the species present.
When food is plentiful and chimps are more chummy, they harbor an increased number of different bacterial species in their bellies.
Researchers pinpoint the cerebellum as particularly vulnerable to blast injury
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