Category: 4. Health

study published in General Psychiatry provides…

A new scientific commentary suggests that annual influenza vaccination could serve as a practical and accessible strategy to help delay or prevent the onset of dementia in older adults. By mitigating the risk of severe cardiovascular events and…

As a cardiologist, Dariush Mozaffarian saw firsthand the devastating role that poor nutrition played in his patients’ health. He saw that it had an impact on heart attacks, strokes and weight gain. He saw patients who were handed prescriptions…

Forget juice cleanses and 10-day detoxes — doctors say the smarter way to feel better fast starts in your gut, and it doesn’t require starving, suffering or giving up real food.

The gut isn’t just mission control for…

The patient: An 18-year-old in Louisiana

The symptoms: The teenager, who was training to be a welder, developed a cough and was hospitalized with pneumonia and respiratory failure a week later. He was intubated at the hospital, meaning a tube…

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here.

Dear Prudence,

My girlfriend and I (both women) moved in together six months ago.  Things are mostly great, but I am struggling to handle our different responses…

I didn’t set out to follow a political diet, or any diet at all, really. But it was January, the new food pyramid was out, and according to the people in charge, it was healthy and easy to do on the cheap. Plus, I like a…