Tag: human body

Obesity rates have more than doubled in adults and quadrupled in adolescents since 1990, making it a leading cause of ...

If you’re 60 or over and suffer from insomnia, you might consider lifting weights before going to bed. A study ...

Any fan of TV medical dramas knows the drill. A patient in the emergency room goes into cardiac arrest, and ...

Every day, around 29 million people in the U.S. take a low dose of aspirin as a blood thinner to ...

We all get old. It’s a given. And the longer we live, the more likely we are to experience the ...

Not that long ago, the idea of a robot performing surgery on a human was something out of science fiction. ...

Sweetness may be contagious. A growing body of research has revealed that the type of people who have a sweet ...

One would think that astronauts’ living quarters in space need to be perfectly sterilized, but it turns out that creating ...

In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the ...

Exercise is one of the most important tools for staying healthy. It helps us to manage weight and improves cardiovascular ...