What is the best way to help people who have dementia? Many interventions are aimed at enabling them to retain self-defining memories and beliefs.

Updated blood pressure guidelines from the American Heart Association mean that many more Americans, notably older people, are now diagnosed with high blood pressure, or hypertension.

For some, jumping on the scales is a daily or weekly ritual; while others haven’t seen a set of scales for years.

New research may be among the first to examine how low levels of vitamin D affect physical performance over the long term.

The health risk presented by air pollution depends on how much dirty air we breathe over time. But people’s exposure to pollution can vary greatly between people living on the same street, or even the same house.

Given the state our bodies are in after exercise, and what alcohol does to our system, drinking after sport is a bad idea.

Many people have an appearance of dark circles on the lower eyelids, and they have many different causes.

We know excess weight is linked to many adverse health consequences, but there is now growing understanding that it also affects fertility.

There is broad, scientific consensus that antibiotic use in animal agriculture is increasing the risk of the development of resistant bacteria. It’s less clear what, if any, role this plays in human health.

We’d all dearly like to see a cure for the common cold, but it never quite seems to arrive. So what’s the hold up

A visit to the supermarket these days can feel more like walking through a pharmacy, with an ever-expanding range of milks, yogurts, pills, powders and specialty foods promoting their “probiotic” prowess.

Studies have found consumption of chillies is inversely related to the risk of being overweight or obese.

Adopting a Mediterranean-style eating pattern improves heart health, with or without reducing red meat intake, as long as the meat is lean and unprocessed, according to a new study.

Everyone knows we should exercise more, drink less, and stop scoffing junk food. Even committed smokers know that smoking is bad for them – but change isn’t easy.

Your hair can say a lot about you. It doesn’t just give people clues about your personality or your taste in music.

Restaurants are playing an increasingly important role in the food culture of North Americans.

I sat quietly, listening to her pain-filled words. She had just been diagnosed with breast cancer and was in my office for preoperative cardiac evaluation. She began to sob softly. Why had good health eluded her even though she did everything right?

Fighting to protect salmon habitat, however, is more than just upholding tribal rights.

Stress affects most of us to one degree or another, and that even includes animals. Pigs, whose GI tracts are extremely similar to those of humans, may be one of the clearest windows we have into researching stress, disease, and new therapies and preventatives – both in livestock and people.

You’re ready to blow your top – but how much is due to your internal hunger and how much to external annoyances?

How can you tell whether an agency has been captured?

It’s recently been reported that scientists have managed to create a test to measure how much urine is in a swimming pool.

AI system that can smell human breath and learn how to identify a range of illness-revealing substances that we might breathe out.