Category: 4. Health

Why do we love? Why do we lust? What makes us seek out a mate? These are questions that scientists, poets, philosophers, and people have asked and considered for centuries. Today, we are closer than ever before to discovering the answers. A recent study from Cell inches us closer to understanding the circuits in our brain that…

The passage of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” has triggered intense debate. Critics warn of devastating Medicaid cuts and uninsured patients flooding ERs. But behind the headlines lies a deeper…

All eight babies show no signs of having mitochondrial DNA disease. The babies, four girls and four boys, including one set of identical twins, were born to seven women at high risk of transmitting serious disease caused by mutations in mitochondrial DNA. The findings, reported on July 16 by the Newcastle team who pioneered…

President Trump was just diagnosed with venous insufficiency. He had noticed swelling in his legs, prompting an examination by his physician, Sean…

n this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at all the tech making the dentist’s office more comfortable, a new company building automated construction equipment, a potential new class of virus-fighting compounds and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in your inbox here.

Earlier this week, I had to do something I was dreading: I went to the dentist to get a partial…

Mike returned home to Philadelphia after a 15-year prison sentence and suffered an emotional breakdown.

“I just couldn’t stop crying … I don’t know. It was the anxiety. It was just a lot,” he said. “I was under a lot of pressure and it just came crashing down.”

Mike, who was in his late 40s when we spoke, told me about his childhood filled with abuse, his first arrest at age 14, and the over 20 years of his life that he spent behind bars.

As a registered nurse and

Children whose mothers had higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy scored better on tests of memory, attention and problem-solving skills at ages 7 to 12 compared with those whose mothers had lower levels. That is a key finding of a new peer-reviewed study that my colleagues and I published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

While vitamin D has long been known for its role in maintaining bone health, scientists have since uncovered its importance in regulating immune…

The floodwaters came fast, but the failures in disaster planning had been building for years. The Texas floods that swept through Central Texas on July 4 claimed more than 130 lives and left over 160 people missing. Among them were young children, the elderly, and those with medical or physical vulnerabilities — people least…

Now, researchers have shown for the first time in Frontiers in Endocrinology that a particular gene, called SDR42E1, is crucial for taking up vitamin D from the gut and further metabolizing it…