Four minutes of planking sounds extreme to most people (time goes much slower when you’re holding your body above the ground, right?), but Canadian athlete Dana Glowacka isn’t like most people—and...

While the world awaits the development and approval of a vaccine that will help in the global fight against COVID-19, medical experts are worried about how the impending flu season could exacerbate already...

COVID-19 has sharply brought into focus the impact of respiratory infectious diseases on humanity. It has also shown that the greatest defense against health crises is government policy that is strongly...

(HealthDay)—Stressed from home-schooling your kids? Lonely from lockdown? Worried about a sick loved one isolated in a nursing home? Worried you might lose your job? The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is...

When I was in my early 20s, living in Paraguay, my friend Tamara used to mention her friend Andrés with relative frequency.  Every now and then, when I enquired what she was up to, she’d tell me Andrés...

A new precision medicine targeting cancer’s ability to repair its DNA has shown promising results in the first clinical trial of the drug class. The new study, designed to test the drug’s...

A team of researchers from Stanford University in the U.S. and Southern University of Science and Technology in China has found evidence that suggests metastasis of cancerous tumors may get its start...

As a survivor of sexual assault, being “weird” about sex is far from unusual: Why wouldn’t we fear the act that was used as a weapon against us? Or, as Sarah Melancon, Ph.D. and Clinical Sexologist,...

In a briefing yesterday, Bill Bryan, an undersecretary at the Homeland Security Department, discussed some research on what’s believed to kill the novel coronavirus effectively. In a comment about...

As Americans wonder when COVID-19 infections may ease and when people can return to work, USC and Los Angeles County are conducting a study that could hold the answers. Today and Saturday, researchers...