Opioids are the one of the most prescribed pain-relief for people with low back and neck pain. But new research shows they don’t effectively relieve low back or neck pain and can result in worse pain.

Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace.

Lahore has become the latest megacity to shut down as pollution chokes swathes of South Asia, where nearly 50 million people have been breathing toxic air for nearly a week.

Fructose, a new paper proposes, is the pernicious little demon driving so many human metabolisms towards obesity.

After gene therapy, Yiyi can hear her mother and dance to the music. But why is it so noisy at night?

While for most people, an itch is an annoying, temporary nuisance, one in five of us will experience chronic itch lasting weeks or months. New treatments finally offer hope.

Men who engage in recreational activities such as golf, gardening and woodworking are at higher risk of developing ALS, an incurable progressive nervous system disease, a study has found. The findings add to mounting evidence suggesting a link between ALS and exposure to environmental toxins.

The war against abortion rights, sex ed and more may unravel decades of progress

Even though placebos have been widely studied, there are still many things about them that will surprise you.

Indigenous chefs and authors discuss the beloved and thorny legacy of the food.

Did you know you can patent a living thing? Decades of lobbying made that possible. Now just four companies control the intellectual property behind nearly ALL of the food we eat. We call them the "Life Cartel" and we broke down their plot to privatize everything.

A study has found that adding caffeine to the drinking water of rats exposed to social isolation stress can protect them from developing memory impairments.

A few years ago, we wrote about Joe Bernstein’s absolutely fantastic long read on how we’re probably all looking at the concept of disinformation wrong. As our title said, “most information on disi…

New research found that adults with ADHD are nearly three times as likely to develop dementia. Researchers did not prove causation, simply a correlation between the mental health disorder and impacted cognitive function.