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Daily Steps Weight Loss

Tracking daily step counts can be a useful tool for weight management

Spicy food might burn in the moment, but it likely won't harm your health in the long term

Spicy Food Pepper

Tenacious curiosity in the lab can lead to a Nobel Prize – as 2 Penn scientists just demonstrated

Penn Nobel Prize

Loud sounds at movies and concerts can cause hearing loss, but there are ways to protect your ears

Concerts Hearing Loss

Your unique body odor could identify who you are and provide insights into your health

Body Odor Scent

Children's Health

Secondhand smoke may substantially contribute to lead levels found in children, study finds

Secondhand Smoke Lead

As the youth mental health crisis worsens, the dire shortage of providers prevents young people from getting help

Mental Health Teens

More adults than ever have been seeking ADHD medications – here's what could be driving the trend

Babies almost all try crawling as they begin to move, but CDC says it's not a useful developmental milestone

Baby Milestones Crawling

Bluey teaches children and parents alike about how play supports creativity – and other life lessons

Bluey TV Parenting

Alternative Medicine

Millions of Americans believe aromatherapy works – but for many doctors, it doesn’t pass the smell test

Aromatherapy Essential Oils

Hip-hop and health – why so many rap artists die young

Strep throat can easily be confused with throat infections caused by viruses – here's how to tell the difference

Sore Throat Cause

Fiber is the body's natural guide to weight management

Can we train our taste buds for health? A neuroscientist explains how genes and diet shape taste

Taste Buds Health Foods

The ugly side of beauty: Chemicals in cosmetics threaten college-age women’s reproductive health

Cosmetics Chemicals Fertility

Balance declines with age, but exercise can help stave off some of the risk of falling

Aging Balance Falls

ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial and misunderstanding

Generative AI Misinformation

How mindfulness, meditation and self-compassion can improve mental health

Meditation Mental Health

Emergency contraception is often confused with abortion pills – here's how Plan B works to prevent pregnancy

What causes motion sickness? Here's how to reconcile the mismatch in what your senses are telling your brain

Motion sickness

Eating disorders among teens have more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic

Eating disorders teens

Can eating poppy seeds affect drug test results? An addiction and pain medicine specialist explains

Poppy seeds drug tests

From grave robbing to giving your own body to science – a short history of where medical schools get cadavers

A little bit of narcissism is normal and healthy; here's how to tell when it becomes pathological

Pathological Narcissism

Alternative Medicine

CBD is not a cure-all – here's what science says about its real health benefits

Many Americans wrongly assume they understand what normal blood pressure is; that false confidence can be deadly

Normal Blood Pressure

Vinyl chloride, a chemical released in the Ohio train derailment, can damage the liver

How will a high ankle sprain affect Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl? A surgeon explains

Patrick Mahomes Ankle

Lung cancer rates have decreased for men, but risen steeply for non-smokers and young women

Lung Cancer Rates

Working from home and missing your old commute? There are psychological reasons for that

Commute Remote Work

Marriage provides health benefits – and here's why

Marriage Health Benefits

Cold weather brings itchy, irritated, dry and scaly skin. Here's how to treat it

Dry Skin Winter

Most fitness trackers monitor heart rate variability – here's what this metric says about your health

The holiday blues leave many Americans feeling down during a season that emphasizes being merry

Holiday Blues Depression

The record cold and flu season highlights the urgency for RSV vaccines and other preventive strategies

RSV Treatment Vaccine

Vitamin B12 deficiency is a problem that can have serious consequences – but doctors often overlook it

Vitamin B12 deficiency

Doctors often miss depression symptoms for certain groups, but a routine screening policy could reduce the gap

Depression Screening

Hey, new parents – go ahead and 'spoil' that baby!

Soothe Crying Baby

Who sees what you flush? Wastewater surveillance for public health is on the rise, but many adults are still unaware

Wastewater surveillance covid

A blood test that screens for multiple cancers at once promises to boost early detection

MCEDs Blood Tests Cancer

Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis Bacteria

An RSV outbreak is surging in the United States; here's what parents should know

RSV Outbreak

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