A cup of hot chocolate a day could keep the doctor away: Cocoa ‘boosts blood circulation in legs and helps keep over 60s on their feet’ Over 60s drank a mug of flavanol-rich cocoa three times...

The current outbreak of infections with a novel type of coronavirus has sparked global anxiety and concern that the virus might spread too far and too fast and cause dramatic harm before health officials...

A study of teenage girls’ selfie-taking behaviors found that taking and sharing selfies on social media is not linked to poor body image or appearance concerns. However, when adolescent girls spend...

What began as an unknown sickness in one part of the world has now threatened to become a pandemic, creating worldwide concern. Since this new coronavirus, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, was...

In a world first, a woman rendered infertile by cancer treatment gave birth after one of her immature eggs was matured, frozen, and then—five years later—thawed and fertilised, researchers in France...

New research from the University of Sheffield has discovered that switching to a rich diet after eating a restricted diet can decrease life expectancy and have negative effects on health. It has long...

The ketogenic diet, popular among athletes seeking a performance edge and people hoping to lose weight, may harm bone health in the long term. Australian research has found that athletes on the keto diet...

Kurt Williamson is a virologist, an associate professor in William & Mary’s Department of Biology who specializes in the study of viruses. He offers some scientific context for the ongoing...

Mumps cases spiked in 2019, with outbreaks in universities and colleges raising the number of cases of the viral infection to 5,042 in 2019 – a fourfold increase on the previous year. Most cases...

MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 — Two experimental drugs do not appear to slow memory loss or mental decline in patients in the early stages of a rare, inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease, according...