Maybe it’s a bride standing in a hot chapel, or an exhausted runner after a race. It could be someone watching a medical procedure on television or a donor at a blood drive.

You vacuum it, sweep it and wipe it off your furniture. But do you know what it actually is – and how it may affect your health?

Have Americans forgotten how to cook? Many lament the fact that Americans spend less time cooking than they did in previous generations. 

A vasectomy, or male sterilization, is a very effective, relatively simple option for permanent birth control.

The benefits of exercise may differ depending on the time of day when you work out, a new study in mice suggests.

As many as one in four women in the UK now give birth by caesarean section, the vast majority of them carried out by choice. The overall number has more than trebled in the last 40 years.

Salmon is not only tasty but is prized for being low fat and high in rich omega-3 oils.

If you’re a red meat-eater, there’s a good chance you’re eating more of it than you should. At last count, Australians ate an average of 81 grams of red meat per day.

People who identify with the “Quantified Self movement” are, as expressed in the movement’s motto, seeking “self-knowledge through self-tracking.”

Psychic or not, we all need to energize and balance our energy centers each day. The following exercises can be carried out every morning and throughout the day as needed. They will energise the body, pinpoints imbalanced areas, and enable us to attend to our own well-being.

According to the World Health Organisation, iron deficiency – a condition where your body doesn’t have enough of the mineral iron – is a global public health problem of “epidemic proportions”.

A few years ago, convincing meat-free “meat” was nothing more than a distant dream for most consumers.

The idea that spending recreational time in natural settings is good for our health and wellbeing is hardly new.

You’ve probably seen ads for apps promising to make you smarter in just a few minutes a day. Hundreds of so-called “brain training” programs can be purchased for download.

It seems like every day a new study is published that links the bacteria in the gut to a specific disease or health condition.

To sleep or to snooze? You probably know the answer, but you don’t prefer it. Most of us probably use the snooze function on our alarm clocks at some point in our lives.

South Africa has the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world, with an alarming figure of 13%.

The abortion debate is at the center of U.S. political dialogue. Voices from both sides flood social media feeds, newspapers, radio and television programs.

The Kakadu Plum fruiting season in the Top End in Australia is just finishing. Over one weekend, I was able to find a few fruits on the ground beneath some trees in the Eucalypt woodland near Darwin.

A new study links long-term use of proton pump inhibitors to fatal cases of cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and upper gastrointestinal cancer.

A synthetic, non-intoxicating analogue of cannabidiol can effectively treat seizures, according to new research with rats.

If you’ve ever stopped to admire a birch tree, you may unknowingly have something in common with a 5,300-year-old mummy called Ötzi.

Most of traditional healing practices are based on intuitive principles of diseases involving the imbalance of elemental qualities.