Chain restaurants have been posting calorie counts on menus in New York City since 2008, but it’s not clear that the information actually helps anyone eat better. If the latest study on food-buying behavior at four fast-food …
If biracial and multiracial celebrities have anything in common, it is that they are often asked to explain themselves. That may sound familiar to any person of mixed ancestry for whom questions like “What are you?” and the …
Eating a fiber-heavy diet helped reduce people’s risk of death from heart disease, infectious or respiratory disease, or any cause by 22%, according to a new study.
iPhone and Android apps can help you get a date, come up with a pick up line or find a romantic restaurant on the fly. But protect you from sexually transmitted disease and unwanted pregnancy? There’s now an app for that too: the …
Love isn’t just fodder for poets. For as long as people have been falling for each other, scientists have worked hard to locate the roots of love somewhere in the body.
From flower allergies to diabetes, there may be many impediments to a good time on Valentine’s Day. So Healthland has a few suggestions to make your V-day decadent — but not health-endangering.
Advances in genetic testing allow doctors unprecedented access to our DNA. But sometimes these tests reveal disturbing information that doctors weren’t looking for.
When you grab a diet soda instead of the full-sugar version, you might think you’re making the healthy choice — and you are, at least when it comes to your weight. But according to a new study, people who drink diet soda …
Within six months the military plans to begin implanting microchips on the surface of patients’ brains to study a prosthetic robotic arm controlled by the user’s thoughts, via the chip. The $100 million arm, which was developed …
Electronic cigarettes, the smokeless battery-operated nicotine-delivery devices that look like real cigarettes, are becoming increasingly available online, with manufacturers marketing them largely to people who are trying to …
Vaccines have been associated with any number of bizarre side effects — but putting people to sleep? That’s a new one.
When a pornographic-film performer tested positive for HIV at a Los Angeles porn clinic last October, it shined a light on the lack of oversight of the porn industry. In December, that clinic, which porn producers used to test …
A study of deaf people in Nicaragua offers fascinating insights into the link between language acquisition and the understanding of numbers.
