Katherine Ellen Foley

I used to think that my anxiety about a packed social calendar meant I was a not a fun person.

Unofficially, everyone knows that different kinds of booze will give them a different kind of night. But now, data from one of the largest surveys on drug and alcohol use finally prove it: hard liquor gives most people that extra ~swag~.

The real truth about sugar isn’t very easy to swallow.

In space currency, asteroids are a dime a dozen. Astronomers have found around 750,000 of the giant space rocks floating around our solar system.

The US opioid epidemic seems to many to have come out of nowhere, and there’s been much finger-pointing in recent years about how this state of affairs came to be. Some have argued that inadequate mental healthcare is to blame. Others have postulated that doctors were naively over prescribing them as a way to quickly treat pain and please their patients. But, according to a recently published draft report, at least some of the blame should be attributed to the way pharmaceutical companies have manipulated patent extensions over the past decade.

The brain-training industry is huge, and growing. Forecasts suggest people will spend some 4-10 billion of dollars on these types of games by 2020.

Your blood pressure might be too high, but it has nothing to do with the state of the world today.

Kratom is a plant-based alternative treatment used by many as a painkiller, and by some as a way to get off opioids. Because it’s a supplement, it’s not regulated in the US. But the country’s Food and Drug Agency just issued a broad public health warning against the stuff, using terms as strong as it has when referencing deadly drugs like heroin.

There hasn’t been a new drug approved to treat Alzheimer’s in more than a decade, and Bill Gates is impatient for a cure.

By the time his parents brought him into the burn unit at the Children’s Hospital at Ruhr University in Germany in June 2015, the seven-year-old boy was in dire shape. Over 60% of his skin was gone, and he was fighting off two types of bacterial infections.

After a sleepless night, your neurons act a lot like you probably do: weak, slow, and generally a bit of a mess.

If we want to really understand human health, we need to get more women on medical research team.

The vast majority of us spend our entire lives pulled down by gravity. Then there are astronauts.

About 20 years ago, doctors first used a stent—an inflatable tube, usually metal or plastic—to reopen blocked blood vessels around the heart. Since, it’s become a standard of care for relieving heart-related chest pain. But new research suggests stents may be more placebo than panacea.

The best way to screen for breast cancer is a mammogram, but some companies have been trying to convince American women otherwise.

It’s a time of high anxiety in the United States, but all that distress isn’t spread equally among us.

The vast majority of venomous spiders won’t hurt you, but you definitely want to avoid members of the Australian funnel-spider family at all costs. They carry a cocktail of poisons that paralyze their prey by disrupting their nervous systems; some are so potent they can kill full-grown humans.

Even if you’re going to gorge on candy this Halloween, there’s one type you should absolutely only eat in moderation.

At her core, University of Richmond philosopher Jessica Flanigan is a fierce libertarian. She believes doctors should treat patients based on their own value system and circumstantial needs. As such, she thinks cognitive enhancers that help students focus shouldn’t only be given to those with learning disabilities, but rather any student facing disruption—including loud and distracting classrooms.

On Oct. 26, Donald Trump finally declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. This means that federal agencies have officially been directed to spend more money over the next 90 days on combatting addiction.

It’s been almost a decade since the motorcycle accident that left Andrew Meas paralyzed from the chest down. He was wearing a helmet, but a driver trying to cross four lanes at once t-boned Meas, breaking his spine at the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae. These nerves are close to the neck and some of them control arm and leg movement.

What’s better than a robot inspired by bees? A robot inspired by bees that can swim.

How do you clean your apples before you eat them? A rinse under the faucet? A brisk wipe with your sleeve? Whatever the method, chances are you’re doing it wrong, according to a new study.

The kind of neurodegeneration that leads to Alzheimer’s in humans may be more prevalent across the animal kingdom than researchers once thought.