Health
Your Dementia Risk Is Higher If Your Spouse Has It—But It’s More Than Shared Lifestyle
A new study looked at almost one million married couples and found dementia clustered among couples. Shared lifestyle doesn’t explain everything.
Why the Cyclospora Outbreak Is Hard to Pin Down: An Intimate Encounter
The parasite has a long incubation period, which means affected people might not experience explosive diarrhea up to two weeks after exposure
Drinking Water With Meals May Make You Eat More, Not Less
This common dieting tip might be a myth
Why Do Men Develop Parkinson’s Disease More Often Than Women?
Differing gene expression patterns could be to blame
Memory Loss May Not Be the Earliest Sign of Alzheimer’s
Your cognitive flexibility may go first
When It Comes to Back Pain, Maybe You Should be Your Own Doctor
Empowering patients to retake control of their back pain produced surprising results
Ovaries Might Take on an Immune Function After Menopause
The reproductive organs might have hidden role
Lung-on-a-Chip Reveals How Asthma Attacks Permanently Change Airways
Researchers built a cultured lung and gave it an asthma attack
Does Nurture Trump Nature in Disease Risk Prediction?
Social determinants of health can match or exceed genetic risk of common diseases
Can the Sugar Molecules That Coat Our Cells Predict Our Health?
Glycans, once ignored, may revolutionize medicine
