Park's latest book is The Stem Cell Hope: How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives.
The rates of U.S. children affected by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are skyrocketing, according to a recent report, but experts caution that the latest numbers require a bit of decoding.
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Less than half of U.S. adolescents are living heart-healthy lives, and lack of exercise and poor diets could be creating a new generation of heart-disease patients.
According to the latest research, it may be on your breath.
SARS raised the worldwide alarm for how vulnerable we are to disease epidemics. Did we learn our lesson?
Needles may not seem like the best tool for treating stress, but acupuncture could be tapping into basic biological systems that keep stress under control.
Pope Francis is a pioneering pontiff in many ways — he’s the first to take the name of Francis, the first pope from South America, and the first to don the papal robes with an unusual medical condition.
Researcher and former skater Jessica Green wanted to test how microbes are spread by contact. What better way to do so than via a sport with plenty of contact?
A vaccine that thwarts cancer cells has so far proved to be better in theory than in practice, and researchers may finally understand why.
Researchers say a newborn baby born with HIV has been functionally cured of the disease. Could it lead to a cure for HIV?
It’s one of the crueler realities of teendom — some kids are plagued with monster zits and problem skin, while others tend to sail through adolescence with nary a blemish.
The mystery substance is an herbal remedy
Koop endowed the office of Surgeon General with important powers to influence public health
The Mediterranean diet is a well-known weapon in the fight against heart disease, but exactly how effective is it?
