What happens inside your body when you're tired, out of breath, or oxygen-deprived? A new study by researchers at the ...

Q: I have been caring for my 75-year-old husband with dementia for the past four years (I am 72), and I’m at my wits’ end. Suggestions? — Carey T., Joplin, ...

Despite more complex reproductive organs and fewer resources, female bodies are built to get through hardship and disease, ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of ancient medicine has emerged from a 2,200-year-old tomb in southern China.

Scientists discovered that the brainless sea anemone build their bodies with a technique common in bilaterians... which is what humans are.

Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins ...

Loneliness and emptiness aren't mindset problems. They reflect how pressure can lock the nervous system into patterns of protection, disconnection, and loss of purpose and joy.

In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

If you are not familiar with the term “Inflammaging,” you should be. Inflammaging refers to the chronic, low-grade, systemic ...

Older adults who react more slowly with their arms during slips are at greater risk of falling, new research shows.

Q: I’m having some memory problems, and my doctor said to eat more salads. What does that have to do with anything? — Pat R., ...

Grief is a natural process, an intense fundamental emotion, a universal experience which makes us human. It is a process that entails extremely hard work over a period of many ...