Livongo vet Dr. Kimon Angelides is now looking to the women’s health space with her new company, FemTec Health, which is focused on using data for personalized care across a patient’s life cycle. The...

California, home of the freeway and the car-based lifestyle, has long struggled with air pollution—and been a pioneer in cleaning up the air, for example in vehicle emission standards. But in recent...

Daily updates of COVID case numbers have been part of our pandemic lives. These numbers are reported, analyzed and widely shared. They’re conversation starters, and with good reason. Until recently,...

The dangerous rise of defensive medicine: How doctors give us invasive and risky tests we don’t need – because they are so terrified of being sued for negligence Doctors not only fear missing...

As the world’s attention turns to the climate summit in Glasgow, where governments are negotiating the future of international action on climate change, many will be feeling the acute stress and...

It remains a central challenge in psychiatry to reliably judge whether a patient will respond to treatment. In a new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, researchers from Karolinska Institutet...

We all know Chef Ramsay with his hellish attitude in the kitchen but it’s undeniable that his cooking skills are a blessing from heaven. It will not be an exaggeration to say that he has built quite...

To make running seem easier, try paying attention to anything other than your body. That’s according to a fascinating new study of the ways in which how we focus as we move can impact how we feel as...

The best air purifiers on the market can truly transform the quality of the air you breathe at home. These handy appliances have a plethora of benefits, from reducing exposure to airborne pollutants to...

The 2014–2016 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa was the worst outbreak of the disease since its discovery in the 1970s. Centered in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the epidemic claimed over 11 300...