When it comes to building muscle, it’s probably not the size of your weights or the number of repetitions that matter.
Stretching has always been a part of fitness. Most of us were taught to believe that being able to touch your toes or grasp your hands with one arm over your shoulder and the other behind your back was linked to injury prevention, less sore muscles, and even better performance.
When New York rapper Azealia Banks took to Facebook this month to defend her use of skin-lightening products, she came armed with claims of hypocrisy.
I think of myself as a healthy person. Most days, I feel okay: No aches and pains, and I’m pretty happy. I exercise and eat a lot of veggies. I’m young. I’m fine.
Cats have a wily reputation, but their cunning could just be basic deductive reasoning.
Insects engineered to detect explosives sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but they may become a reality for the US military.
Monday (July 4), Americans will celebrate their independence from Britain with a quintessentially American competition: the 100th annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest on Coney Island in New York.
While no medical exams are enjoyable, female pelvic exams are among the most awkward.
Who needs men, anyway?
Every time I hear about getting lost in someone’s eyes, I roll my own. They’re just a body part, after all.
A random grouping if ever there was one, Lady Gaga, the Dalai Lama, Ann Curry, and a bunch of US mayors gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana, this weekend to chat about inner peace.
In the wake of Thursday’s Brexit vote, it was impossible to ignore the pervasive despair. Markets plummeted as negative predictions emerged for everything from research and the environment to air travel and luxury goods. It’s hard to smile about general global instability.
Of all the factors Brits considered when they voted on whether to stay or leave the European Union, the environment was probably low on their list.
The biotech world just got one step closer to editing genes in humans.
If you get a weak handshake from a millennial, don’t blame him or her. It could be a generational thing.
Today, June 20, 2016 marks the summer solstice, or the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. The sun’s rays are directly over the Tropic of Cancer, right at 23.5° N, at 6:34 pm ET.
Here in the northern hemisphere, the longest days of the year are approaching and with it come nature’s daily masterpiece: sunset.
While babies learn to walk and talk, there’s another crucial piece of development taking place: the microbiome.
In order to lose significant amounts of weight, many obese patients turned to types of bariatric surgery. These surgeries, which limit the amount they can eat by either shrinking the stomach or bypassing it altogether, are expensive, invasive, and may require patients to eat severely restrictive diets for the rest of their lives.
For Michelle Bundren, there is no such thing as a typical patient. As an emergency medicine physician, she may see anything from a child with an ear infection to a car crash victim to a drug overdose in the same day. ”You see anything and everything,” she said.
We’ve all heard it before: weight loss occurs when we eat fewer calories than we burn.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) doesn’t take cheating lightly—even if it might have been unintentional.
We all cooperate, but not in the same ways. And now, neuroscience shows that at least some of those differences may be based on sex.
The best kind of therapy isn’t just talking aimlessly about feelings. It’s a structured time where therapists work with patients to solve their problems until they can do it on their own. In most cases, the goal is reaching that end point—and it isn’t always years away.
