What Causes Baldness?
If you’ve got a receding hairline, don’t be so quick to blame it on your baseball caps or your grandpa.
If you’ve got a receding hairline, don’t be so quick to blame it on your baseball caps or your grandpa.
Although the news often focuses on doom and gloom, there is plenty of good news around the world: we are making tremendous advances in life expectancy, disease prevention, poverty, and hunger. As we head into 2014, here are 11 reasons to be optimistic.
From the conjoined livers from a pair of Siamese twins to slides of Albert Einstein’s brain, Philadelphia's Mütter Museum houses dozens of strange artifacts from medical history.
From herb and fat concoctions to various forms of animal poop potions, here are some historical hair loss remedies you probably don't want to slather on your head.
Condoms have been around for centuries, but they haven't improved much in the last 50 years. So a Grand Challenge was issued: make the condom better!
There's usually a doctor around in the movies, and they save the day. But what about in real life?
Artificially added nutrients may not make a food “healthy,” but they do stave off several debilitating, and sometimes fatal, diseases of malnutrition. Here are a few of those maladies.
First reported in the 1700s, the mental disorder where people suffer the nihilistic delusion that they are dead or no longer exist, that's also called "Walking Corpse Syndrome" is still a mystery.
We know you’re just itching to know all about some of history’s nastiest viruses and the horrifying diseases they cause in humans.
There's a major difference between your body and your environment.
Humans aren’t the only species with an obesity problem. A recent study shows that 55 percent of domestic dogs and cats are overweight or obese. Even zoo animals are seeing higher numbers on the scale. Fat cats and dogs might be cute, but animal obesity is
Large animals tend to live longer than smaller ones. But this isn't the case for most breeds of dog. What gives?
There are plenty of intrepid scientists doing strange-sounding field work. Here are two.
The historical medical uses for leeches (some of which are still being practiced today) are pretty well known. But being covered in blood suckers is still nowhere near as gross as many of the medical treatments of the past covered in this great article on
Buckingham Palace has confirmed what the British tabloids have suspected for a while: The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting. Unfortunately, Kate has also been admitted to the hospital due to hyperemesis gravidarum, or acute morning sickness—so severe that