Health

The calorie is the basic unit of measure of food — and it might be off.

Might microdosing LSD and psilocybin be a safe, effective way to treat depression and other disorders?

Vitamins do work — when eaten in whole foods, not pills.

“We inject one tumor and we see all of the other tumors just melt away.”

2019 is on track to becoming a record-high year for measles cases in the U.S.

The health care payment system is due for a major overhaul.

Don’t get too excited, there is a catch to the study.

Wanna lose weight? How does eating only pineapple and lamb chops sound? Maybe receiving all your sustenance through a feeding tube instead?

A new study has some disturbing implications for rodents who like a nice soda.

The diet claims that people with different blood types process their food differently. Does it pass muster?

A recent Colorado study of ER visits is alarming medical professionals.

Monsanto just lost a major court battle to a man who said he developed cancer after using Roundup.

The discovery could lead to improved treatments for chronic pain.

One group of women still seem to benefit from the popular diet.

A new study from the University of Pittsburgh details how the anti-vaxx movement has divided and grown.

We take fewer mental pictures per second.

The Human Diagnosis Project project is building the world’s “open medical intelligence” system.

A NASA-led study suggests the stress of spaceflight seems to trigger various types of herpes to reactivate in astronauts.

A new method of growing mini-brains produces some startling results.

The issues that determine your health go way beyond seeing your doctor.

Though eggs are back on the menu, some are trying to rewrite the script.

The blood of horseshoe crabs is harvested on a massive scale in order to retrieve a cell critical to medical research. However, recent innovations might make this practice obsolete.

Love to drop F-bombs? Thank the shift to agriculture.

A recent study used MRIs to study the changes in brain activity when trained method actors responded to questions in and out of character.

A bill in New York would let older kids get vaccinations against their parents’ wishes.

100 years ago, you could expect to live to 54. Our luxurious, 80-year-long lives come at a cost.

Using a new process, a mini-brain develops retinal cells.

Access to trauma care is a race issue. It shouldn’t be.

Just because the keto diet is an effective weight-loss tool doesn’t mean everyone should try it.

The answer can be found several thousand years ago, in the Roman city of Cyrene.