You may not be a political pundit or consider yourself any type of expert on the upcoming presidential election. But you still have iNFLuence—at least with the people you’re closest to.“The conversations we have with family and...
In a video posted to Reddit this summer, Lucie Rosenthal’s face starts focused and uncertain, looking intently into the camera, before it happens. She releases a succinct, croak-like belch. Then, it’s wide-eyed surprise,...
The daily ebb and flow of hormones in the male body may play a role in shrinking the brain throughout the day, a study hints. After losing volume between morning and evening, the brain resets overnight, starting the cycle again, the...
A few weeks before Justin Bieber and his wife, Hailey, announced in May 2024 that they were expecting, the pop icon posted a selfie where he appears tearful and distraught. While media attention quickly pivoted to the pregnancy, there...
My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of Washington went into COVID-19 lockdown. Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief were available to our family. There was no funeral or...
The premiere of the first-ever season of The Golden Bachelorette has been on my calendar for months. I can’t wait to watch 24 men who have aged exceedingly well climb out of their limos and greet the star, Joan Vassos, on Sept. 18...
With rising rates of obesity in the U.S. and increasing attention being paid to the health harms of processed foods, it’s clear that far more could be done to help consumers make healthy food choices. A bill known as the TRUTH in...
Carin Luna-Ostaseski still recalls the shock of discovering her periods had become monsoons. Short monsoons, she clarifies—her cycle went from lasting a week to two to three days—but still monsoons. She realized she was going through...
Technology is changing the world faster than ever—but medicine still doesn’t move quickly enough when it comes to adopting innovations that prevent harm and make patients safer.When the Institute of Medicine in 1999 released a...
A coveted research award that comes with a $250,000 prize is going to a scientist who helped uncover a protein's role in the human body's immune defenses.Biochemist Zhijian "James" Chen, director of the INFLaMMAtion Research Center...
Doctors Lisa Chan of Hong Kong and Victoria Belo from the Philippines explain why aesthetic treatments are no longer taboo and how Asians can best take care of their appearance. Why do you think aesthetic treatments are a form of...
Dr. Dinesh Bhugra became interested in psychiatry while dissecting cadavers in medical school in Pune, India. From the inside, the bodies looked so similar, yet people think and behave so differently, he mused. He became fascinated...
Even though preventive care is supposed to be free by law for millions of Americans thanks to the Affordable Care Act, many don’t receive recommended preventive services, especially racial and ethnic minorities and other at-risk...
The numbers are hard to ignore. Around the world, 148 million children experience stunted growth, 45 million suffer from wasting, and nearly half of all children who die every year die from malnutrition.“Even for kids who survive...
Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American singer, songwriter ,and TV personality. She was born April 24 1982. She got fame in 2002 by winning the first season of American idol. The singer is now embracing her new life as a single mother...
Health care is a defining issue in the 2024 election – Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican contender Donald Trump have starkly different records on the issue. Rather than focusing on what they promise to...
Not long ago, Mark Chiverton, a 33-year-old in the U.K., noticed he was making a lot of silly mistakes. He’d mix up words when writing emails, or blank on a basic term while talking to his wife. None of these slip-ups were all that...
When people are strong and reliable, we describe them as solid, yet the human body is about 60% water. Let’s face it: even the toughest among us is less like concrete, and more like a walking water balloon. Water is essential to...
There’s a hidden gender gap when it comes to digestive problems, with women taking the lead in this unpleasant contest. While men are hardly immune to gastrointestinal woes, certain digestive problems are considerably more common...
A little-known and poorly understood sleep disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement, or REM, stage of sleep has been garnering attention for its role in foreshadowing neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson’s...
Pregnancy may cause more than 80% of the brain's gray matter to shrink, leaving "permanent etchings."That's what researchers found when a pregnant neuroscientist underwent more than two dozen brain scans throughout her pregnancy and...
