Category: Health

Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko Matsumoto-Oda, an evolutionary biologist and primatologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan, had a front-row seat to the violence between these monkeys,…

Alzheimer’s disease now affects more than seven million people in the U.S., and nearly four in five Americans say they would want to know if they have it before symptoms…

On April 1, the Trump administration’s effort to slash government funding arrived in Morgantown, W.Va., where federal scientists spent their days studying health and safety threats to American workers. That…

A new study has exposed “serious adverse events” linked to mifepristone, also known as the “abortion pill.” Mifepristone is a “pregnancy blocker” that is used in combination with another medication,…

Even on days when you’re lagging in energy, exercise can give your brain a boost. That’s according to researchers at the University of Missouri (Mizzou), who made a specific discovery…

As measles cases continue to spread throughout the U.S. — with 12 states reporting official outbreaks, according to the latest CDC data — concern is growing among high-risk groups. Children…

When a person develops solid tumors in the stomach or esophagus or rectum, oncologists know how to treat them. But the cures often come with severe effects on quality of…

Insulin, heart treatments and antibiotics have flowed freely across many borders for decades, exempt from tariffs in a bid to make medicine affordable. But that could soon change. For months,…

Do we really have free will when it comes to eating? It’s a vexing question that is at the heart of why so many people find it so difficult to…

David Paton, an idealistic and innovative ophthalmologist who started Project Orbis, converting a United Airlines jet into a flying hospital that took surgeons to developing countries to operate on patients…