The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) produces fruit which houses the substance that later becomes chocolate or cocoa. Find out why the raw form is so healthy.

DEHRADUN: The creature once notorious for clinging to human skin and sucking blood in the Himalayan foothills—leech, ...

TOKYO -- As Japan observes a boom in "recovery wear," or clothing designed to help the body recover from fatigue just by ...

Researchers at USC have created the first method to noninvasively measure microscopic blood vessel pulses in the human brain. Using advanced 7T MRI, they found these tiny pulsations grow stronger with ...

The White House has raised concerns around women’s health, but R&D on pregnant and breastfeeding women is still lacking.

Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

We roll our shoulders and stretch our backs because it feels relaxing, refreshing and maybe even rejuvenating. But why is ...

In a quiet hospital room in Chongqing, China, a 68-year-old brain-dead man became part of a historic medical experiment—one ...

An NIH-supported initiative seeks to unravel how the nervous system tracks and regulates the body’s internal organs. How does ...

Heart disease is a leading killer in India. According to the World Health Organization, about 27 % of all deaths in India are ...

Openwater has developed a low-intensity focused ultrasound device that might one day noninvasively disrupt microclots in long ...

Early research suggests a brain test may predict whether antidepressants will cause sexual dysfunction. There has never been ...