People with higher muscle mass and a lower visceral fat-to-muscle ratio tend to have younger brains, according to research ...

Donating your body to medical science means it is used to benefit medical teaching and research. Donor bodies are used to teach medical and other health science students the relationship between syste ...

Sleep is one of the essential physiological needs for human survival, alongside food, water and air. But sleep is socially ...

Takanori Takebe’s strange investigation into whether humans can use the gut for breathing has surprisingly sentimental origins: helping his dad.

Historically scientists have thought it unlikely that gut microbes affect physiological sleep regulation. The recent study, ...

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has earned a $200 million milestone payment from Sarepta Therapeutics . The milestone was earned when Arrowhead achieved the second development ...

Amazon has come to the state's eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that's been linked to cancer and miscarriages ...

Black magic killings are on the rise in the West African country, where many believe human body parts can make charms more ...

From a mock ICU to images of internal organs on the wall, Siemens Healthineers lets pros test state-of-the-art med technology ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought ...