Limited data on adults age 60 and older raise questions on whether high-priced weight-loss drugs will really help with lowering rates of chronic illness and disability
Experts are more concerned about a lack of activity in older adults who are somewhat overweight than about weight loss
Here’s why your body sheds fat and muscle when you diet
Here’s why older adults naturally lose muscle mass over time and how regular physical activity and resistance training can help
Though you might not be able to significantly rev up your metabolism, there are ways to boost the energy your body burns while doing nothing
Events with extreme temperatures and humidity are occurring twice as often now as they were 40 years ago
Research shows that antifat bias lowers the quality of care for higher-weight patients. Here is one patient’s story
For decades, assumptions about weight have clouded our view of health
What causes them and how to protect yourself
When it comes to dieting, here’s how to tally the so-called basal metabolic rate
Ardem Patapoutian shared The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2020 for answering a basic question: How does touch actually work?
Heat waves kill more people than any other type of severe weather in the U.S. And climate change is making them more frequent and unpredictable
The disqualification of a leading U.S. Olympics candidate has brought the World Anti-Doping Agency’s marijuana prohibition under fire
A lingering hockey injury forces a science writer to reconsider his criticism of American medicine
Physicians often ask you to rate your agony on a scale from one to 10—but the response doesn’t necessarily say anything useful
New research pins the maximum length of human life
New research shows that lightning-quick neural rehearsal can supercharge learning and memory.
Through evolution, we’ve gained an entire arsenal for fighting off potentially harmful microbes of all sorts.
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the importance of having a well-functioning immune system.
Chronic inflammation and immune breakdown appear to be key reasons
