Gut health is more than just digestion. It plays a big part in your body’s immunity, mood, metabolism, and overall well-being ...

Urban India faces hidden nutritional deficiencies despite economic growth, with diets lacking essential nutrients. Studies ...

Whether we like it or not, fat loss appears to be more of a focus than ever thanks to the rise in use of weight loss jabs. But putting aesthetics to one side, what are the health implications of ...

Our brain may not be as capable of rewiring following an amputation as we thought, which could have serious implications for how we treat a common complication called phantom limb pain. A part of the ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Neuroscientists have long held that the brain reorganizes itself when a body part is amputated. A new ...

Bottom line: This study discovered a circuit in the brain that connects stress with increased glucose and therefore may link stress to type 2 diabetes. In stressful situations, this circuit from the ...

It is difficult to overstate the medical progress made in recent decades. In high-income nations, survival rates for one type of childhood leukaemia have risen from around 10 per cent to over 90 per ...

Health concerns and rising prices mean Americans aren’t grabbing their usual snacks or cigarettes from convenience stores. That's hurting sales of Doritos, Twinkies, Heath bars and Newports. U.S.

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body reorganizes itself to compensate for missing body parts. Previous research 1 ...

ATLANTA — A new life is still fighting after a beginning no one would have imagined. April Newkirk's daughter, Adriana Smith, was pronounced brain dead earlier this year. She was kept alive on life ...

A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely — and more directly — than previously understood. This article was originally published ...