Regular alcohol consumption creates a cascade of health problems that often develop silently over years before symptoms become apparent. While many people focus on the immediate effects of drinking, ...

New research suggests that exposure to lower oxygen levels at high altitude may trigger biological changes that could benefit people living with diabetes.

While Alzheimer’s disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, ...

Hugh Taylor has long studied the endometrium, or lining of the uterus. But it was his patients who got him interested in better understanding endometriosis specifically. Endometriosis is a disease in ...

Your body is with you 24/7. But how often do you actually stop to think about what it’s doing? Probably not much—and honestly, that’s for the best. Because the more you dig into how it really works, ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF), caused by Borrelia recurrentis and transmitted by the human body louse, remains a persistent health emergency in Ethiopia, resulting in preventable mortality among ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

While Alzheimer's disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, ...