Fitness

Ayurvedic medicine was practiced for thousands of years before anyone invented the placebo controlled experiment. How has this ancient system held up to modern scientific scrutiny?

Harnessing the organ's own healing properties may help prevent heart attacks and lessen the painful effects of severely narrowed coronary arteries

For many people with depression, serious exercise may be the best, cheapest and safest treatment

What you ate in the past can shape the diversity of your gut flora, and affect how well your gut microbes respond to new foods. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Cold weather may not be to blame, a creative New Zealand study suggests

In a truly person-centered health system, my clinicians would have asked a lot more questions a lot earlier

Areas of the brain related to social cognition shrink in first-time mothers—a structural change that could boost maternal attachment. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

The findings raise questions about if those physicians' methods could be pinpointed and copied 

Hint: not chicken. Author Bill Schutt talks turkey about the history of cannibalism over a plate of placenta Italiana

Changes to gene activity that occur with age can be turned back, a new study shows 

When the body’s biological clock goes awry, insomnia and related disruptions may be an early sign of pending cognitive decline 

Drug overdoses and flu may have been key drivers behind the latest death toll numbers