Health & Fitness

A mysterious lung infection in the central Chinese city of Wuhan is being monitored by the World Health Organization, which said it’s...

For Japanese workers in big cities, a typical work day begins with a state called sushi-zume, a term which likens commuters squeezed into...

New research has linked air pollution nanoparticles to brain cancer for the first time. The ultra-fine particles (UFPs) are...

Arline Feilen lost her husband to suicide in 2013. Three years later, she lost her dad to cancer. And this February, she lost her...

Considering that heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the developed world, anything that can prevent or reduce cardiac mortality, or slow...

Conditions like ADHD give big pharma many opportunities to sell products that don't heal people but make them feel less stressed about...

Our brains are washed by a constant flow of cerebrospinal fluid, which plays the important role of carrying away waste substances, such...

An influential medical journal published a study Monday that links fluoride consumption during pregnancy with lower childhood IQs—a finding that could undermine decades of...

In a groundbreaking treatment, cancer patients’ immune systems are being genetically reprogrammed to fight their terminal cancer for them, with promising results.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Novartis’ $2.1 million gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy — making it the world’s most...