Auckland-based ICU doctor Ivor Popovich offers an insider's view of the health system in his new book, A Dim Prognosis. Hospital bullies, mismanaged priorities, disparities between public and ...

Mount Everest, one of the go-to examples of a "thing that is large", looks like a tiny hillock in comparison to other mountains of the Solar System. While Everest stands at 8,849 meters (29,032 ...

Long cast as villains, some protists, such as Blastocystis, are potentially beneficial to human health.

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Lauren Gray is a New York-based writer and editor with nearly a decade of experience covering health, wellness, ...

There are over 60 types of sphincters in the human body found in the digestive tract, urinary tract ... the precapillary sphincters of the circulatory system, and the pupillary sphincters of the eyes.