Here we review the best science about how to start an exercise habit, and how to keep it going by addressing basic questions and issues.

Four of the world’s biggest cities are to ban diesel cars from their city centres by 2025, in order to improve air quality.

Most of us considered microbes little more than nasty germs before science recently began turning our view of the microbial world on its head.

The study shows that people who sleep less than six hours a night have a 13% higher mortality rate than those sleeping at least seven hours.

Scientists have discovered for the first time a functional link between bacteria in the intestines and Parkinson’s disease.

As light is necessary for the growth of plants and trees, animals, insects and bird life, so it is essential for us. We need sunlight to build strong bones and teeth. Without it children can develop rickets and dental decay. Without realizing it we can suffer from light starvation...

It’s time to clear the aura. Sweeping and clearing remove congested and diseased energy and cleanse, strengthen, and greatly facilitate the healing process. Many simple illnesses can be healed just by sweeping and clearing the aura.

Just one dose of a hallucinogenic drug offers many cancer patients up to six months of relief from disease-related anxiety or depression.

In a remote area of Tanzania, Hadza men leave their huts on foot, armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows, to hunt for their next meal. Meanwhile, Hadza women gather tubers, berries, and other fruits.

Anyone who has tried to lose weight and keep it off knows how difficult the task can be. It seems like it should be simple: Just exercise to burn more calories and reduce your calorie intake.

Most people have heard of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. The disease has no cure and few, but inefficient, treatments.

Safer styling practices and shampoo and conditioning choices can help remedy a type of hair loss and damage that often afflicts African Americans, researchers say.

There have been a multitude of studies attempting to find causes, both genetic and environmental, for autism.

The morning penile erection, or as it is medically known, “nocturnal penile tumescence”, is not only an interesting physiological phenomenon, it can also tell us a lot about a patient’s sexual function.

A system of sensors added to defibrillator implants might make it possible to predict heart failure events—sometimes more than a month before they happen.

Eating a very high-fat diet early in life may disrupt development of the prefrontal cortex in young brains, according to new research in mice.

People living with serious illness who receive palliative care have better quality of life and fewer symptoms than those who don’t, a new study shows.

The Senate inquiry’s report into the planned closure of coal-fired power stations will no doubt shed light on the compelling health reasons to close them.

Healing has always been a great mystery, especially when a cure works for one person but perhaps not for another. Part of the success or failure of any healing modality is how the recipient perceives and accepts the healing. Let’s face it. Some of us...

A middle-aged cigarette smoker who has smoked for decades is two to three times more likely to die early than someone similar who has never smoked.

People who regularly go on diets tend to lose weight initially but bounce back and even gain weight after stopping the regime.

Most of us experience a level of social anxiety at some point in our lives. We worry about what people think of us, about being excluded, about being judged or humiliated.

Most people are interested in how to slow the ageing process, or at least they get more interested as the years tick by.