Over the course of a night of heavy drinking, your blood alcohol level continues to rise. Your body labors to break down the ...

Because recovering from infection profoundly depends on an effective immune response, cyclosporiasis can be especially severe ...

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The political advocacy arm of the reproductive healthcare nonprofit Planned Parenthood has publicly backed incumbent State Rep. Pat Dillon — marking just the latest in a busy season of endorsements in ...

Little was known about sleep until modern science revolutionised our understanding. It turns out that what happens while you are unconscious dictates almost every aspect of your waking health, mood ...

According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go somewhere when we’re indoors. If the idea of skin dust isn’t sitting well ...

Female little brown bats mate in the autumn, but don’t fertilise their eggs or become pregnant until spring. This means there is a six-month gap where the sperm is stored inside the female’s body, ...

For a girl, thinking about motherhood is seen as normal. But a boy who thinks about his fertility or future fatherhood early is often viewed very differently. We wonder why he's already thinking about ...

Abortion rights activists demonstrate in New York, April 15, 2023. Credit: Olga Fedorova/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images This story was cross-posted from History Teaches, a Substack about ...

Stress triggers the body’s fight-or-flight response. Chronic stress can cause negative health effects on your mood, immune and digestive systems, and cardiovascular health. You’re sitting in traffic, ...

Telocytes are CD34 + interstitial cells that have long cytoplasmic projections (called telopodes), and have been detected in several organs, including those of the male reproductive system. In this ...