Health

A study finds prescription medications and dangerous unlisted ingredients in ordinary supplements.

SIDS deaths have decreased worldwide, but research has yet to solve this medical mystery.

Disulfiram is an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of chronic alcoholism. It might also serve as anti-anxiety medication.

Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.

After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?

Can electrical stimulation meaningfully substitute for natural touch during a complex task in the real world? We think so.

Behavioral interventions may be better for long-term health.

Much of the discussion began during the pandemic, which really brought mental health issues to the forefront.

Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.

A new, easy-to-use, $5-device helps address male infertility. It isolates healthy sperm cells based on their natural behavior.

Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.

Older adults who napped at least once or for more than an hour a day had a 40% higher chance of developing Alzheimer’s than those who napped less.

Intracellular bacteria promote cancer metastasis by enhancing the tumor cells’ resistance to mechanical stress in the bloodstream

The Human Genome Project put together 92% of our DNA blueprint. Here’s what it took to complete the rest.

Overwashing is bad for skin health, but many people do it anyway. One reason is that our brains intimately associate stink with disgust.

The results of a recent study found that genetically engineering cats could be a solution to eliminating cat allergies.

If future studies prove it to be successful, this technique for the early detection of pancreatic cancer could save thousands of lives.

Cancer cells hoard iron in unusually high quantities. Scientists have discovered how to leverage this to create safer cancer drugs.

The study shows that it’s possible to map the wildly subjective psychedelic experiences to specific brain regions.

Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.

COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.

More than 200 years ago, scientists tried to figure out how bats navigate in the dark (or without eyes). This set in motion a series of events that led to the development of ultrasound as a form of psychotherapy.

Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.

Could we all attain this superpower?

It won’t give you a six pack, but could improve your bone density.

Scientists find two 30-second techniques that prevent dizziness upon standing.

“I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient.”

Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?

“At that time, it was just a wild idea, […] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”

Some scientists believe that DMT could revolutionize the treatment of depression.