Metabolism researcher Herman Pontzer explains why weight loss has little to do with workouts, how evolution has shaped our bodies, and why growth charts can get health all wrong.

The selected device will fly to the International Space Station in 2027 to provide crucial medical capabilities currently ...

New research suggests that Homo floresiensis’ short stature is probably the result of a type of dwarfism that occurs in ...

We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

Background: The medical knowledge of GPT-4 has been evaluated on patient data, providing diagnostic and treatment suggestions. However, few studies have directly compared the clinical suggestions of ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced plans to decertify the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, a division of the University of Miami Health System, ...

As someone who is alive today because of an organ donation, I was alarmed by the news that Donate Life America, a nonprofit that oversees a national registry of organ donors, saw a 700% increase in ...

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...