It’s perfectly normal for parents to feel worried about having pets and babies in the same house. The former, after all, have the notoriety of possibly increasing the risk of allergies among infants—or perhaps that’s not entirely correct.
The nation’s top doctor, the U.S. Surgeon General, has issued a prescription too all Americans: Walk more. Americans are not getting enough physical activity and walking is easy, cheap, and everyone over the age of 1 or so knows how to do it.
Being obese at age 50 may be associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease at a younger age. A new study has found that excess weight may be linked to onset of Alzheimer’s at a younger age.
Wildfires occur every year, but this year is shaping up to be epic due to the years-long drought in the area. People with breathing issues—those with asthma, chronic bronchitis, and other lung problems—are being hit with double whammy of smoke from the fir…
One of the toughest questions that you need to ask the moment you wake up is whether you have to make your bed or not. A new study suggests that you don’t—at least for the rest of the day.
Screening the whole population of women in order to find those carrying mutated BRCA genes is a "questionable" idea because it would not improve outcomes.
Teaching athletes about their risks of concussion may do little to change their long-term behavior, according to a review article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
