Local Foods as Medicines” has identified and validated local foods that can be used to treat common ailments. In a foreword ...

Is food the key to good mental health? Psychologist Dr Andrea Oskis tells you just why looking after your tummy can keep you ...

Intermittent fasting has gained a following, in part because of tantalizing hints that it can boost cognition, fend off ...

With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, what was once a fringe movement now controls the halls of power.

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better.

If pain is a message telling us to rest, or hydrate, or attend to any of our other survival needs, why are we so dead set on ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

Animals sometimes seek new foods because illness has affected their tastes—leading them to medicate with foods they normally avoid.

Long before society began popping pain relievers like candy, ancient Greeks were chewing willow bark for achy joints; ...