Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent. A systematic …...
In 2024, scientists stumbled upon a potential new treatment for hereditary-patterned baldness, the most common cause of hair loss in both men and women worldwide. It began with research on a natural…...
There is no strong evidence that replenishing hormones after menopause is linked to dementia, according to a sweeping meta-analysis. The systematic review is the most rigorous investigation to date …...
Heart attacks and strokes rarely occur without warning. According to health data from more than 9 million adults in South Korea and the US, nearly everyone who develops heart disease and suffers a m…...
A few nights of binge drinking alcohol may have a surprisingly sudden and deleterious impact on the mammal gut, according to new research on mice. In humans, alcohol use disorder is a leading global…...
In 2022, neurologists at a memory clinic in China diagnosed a 19-year-old with what they believed to be Alzheimer's disease making him the youngest person ever to be diagnosed with the condition. Th…...
The blood of 'superagers' is a potential fountain of youth that scientists are keen to tap into. Emerging evidence suggests that centenarians, who live to 100, and supercentenarians, who live to 110…...
A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who built it. To the team's best knowledge, this joint invention is the world's…...
Not enough young men are getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), and in some nations, it may be undermining the elimination of cervical cancer. If more boys receive the Gardasil v…...
Experiments on an ultra-rare genetic mutation that causes neurodegeneration in children have helped uncover a new mechanism by which brain cells die. The findings raise the possibility that similar …...