Health

As of 2011, 6.4 million children in the United States were diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). From 2003 to 2013 alone, America saw a 41 percent increase in ADHD diagnoses in...

Researchers have found widespread brain disease in dead NFL players. New figures from the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center in Boston — the country’s largest brain bank focused on studying...

Telomere Length and Lifestyle It is the year 1975. Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn is doing her postdoctoral fellowship at Yale, when she notices something strange about the genome of the protozoan Tetrahymena...

Polyphasic Sleep Patterns It’s Monday morning, and you and your friends sit around a table at the dining hall. All you can see are coffee cups and another week of despair ahead of you. You only got four...

Predicting the Next Major Outbreak When medicine and technology appear together, images of robots performing surgery, new drug designs, and 3D-printing organs are evoked. Not only is technology...

Starbucks’ Technological Alternative For the majority of Americans who are sleep-deprived on a regular basis, a cup of coffee is not only a prerequisite for braving chilly Monday mornings, but also a...

A Revolution in Viral Screening Ebola, SARS, HIV, H1N1. Sound familiar? They should. These are the four viruses that triggered some of the most deadly epidemics in the past decade, spreading across the...

A recent study published in the Journal for Infectious Disease found a potential explanation for the decline in immune response found in the elderly population. The culprit: telomeres. To clarify, telomeres...

The Beginning of a New Era of Healthcare “Thump! Thump! Thump!” she can hear her heart beat faster as she runs. Her smart watch shows her heart rate increasing over time. After she comes back from her run...

How close are we to winning the fight against cancer? “Gotta catch ‘em all before it’s too late” is not just a creative twist on the Pokémon slogan. It’s what oncologists try to achieve on a daily...