Dr. Nicholas Norwitz, M.D. Ph.D. writes a best-selling science newsletter, StayCurious Metabolism, where he strives to empower readers with deep knowledge of cutting-edge health science. The more I ...

Seven years ago, Allison Christel was 25, working as a nurse, and running on empty. Her husband was going through a major health crisis, and between his care and her job, her own well-being collapsed.

Shelane Frederick drove her 10-year-old daughter more than 1,000 miles for a few acupuncture needles in her ear—that stayed taped there for a few weeks. Her daughter had developed a severe allergy to ...

As many as six in 10 people prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine for sleep apnea can’t stick with it. However, there may be a way to treat sleep apnea without a mask at all.

There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. It doesn’t make you any less of a person, but sometimes your fears hold you back. Maybe you are avoiding things that could help others, bring your life meaning ...

The awkward phase isn’t a glitch in adolescence. It’s part of growing up. Open an old middle school yearbook, and you’ll find a record of experimentation: haircuts that seemed like a good idea at the ...

Thyroid cancers have different genetic changes depending on their type: papillary cancers often involve BRAF mutations, follicular cancers commonly involve RAS mutations, medullary cancers are ...

East Java, Indonesia, is home to a volcano known as Mount Ijen. Nestled within a 12-mile-wide caldera and home to the world’s highest acidic crater lake, it is known for eerie, ethereal blue sulfur ...

COLUMBIA, Ky.—After a four-wheeler ride with her husband, Mackie Jo Pennington sat on her aunt’s porch, not noticing the tiny dots on her pant leg. As it turned out, those dots were poppy-seed-sized ...

While nearly 70 percent of the U.S. food supply is ultra‑processed, these nourishing almond flour cookie dough bites offer a simple, nutritious alternative. They’re soft, creamy, and slightly ...

Spoiler alert: The viral health tip claiming that brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand to reverse dementia is oversimplified, mostly because it’s untested and therefore unproven. But that ...

When archaeologists opened King Tutankhamun’s tomb, they found gold, jewels—and licorice root. Three thousand years later, scientists are trying to figure out why ancient cultures thought it belonged ...