Humans are complicated, and there are many things that influence our health.

When the Flint water crisis took place in 2014 and 2015, one of my graduate nursing students decided to get involved.

If you want to reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease, there is no end of advice on the internettelling you how to do it: keep your blood pressure and blood sugar in check, lose weight, exercise more, avoid getting type 2 diabetes.

Bipolar disorder is a serious condition of mood and behaviour that affects one in 50 people globally.

So many things happen in life that don't seem to be part of the plan. Whether it involves the end of a job, a relationship, a home, our health, a situation takes place, and we seem to have the rug swept out from under us. Yet, each challenge comes with a message, with a gift...

From the UK to Canada, China to India, around the world, yoga is big business. In 2016, Americans alone spent US$16 billion on yoga classes and products.

A new soy-based adhesive made from food components is even stronger than Gorilla Glue on wood, researchers say. On aluminum, it’s about the same.

For most infections, the long-standing advice is to take a full course of antibiotics.

Belly fat affects the odds of women surviving kidney cancer but not men, a new study shows.

Chernobyl has become a byword for catastrophe. The 1986 nuclear disaster, recently brought back into the public eye by the hugely popular TV show of the same name

Have you have seen ants this year? In Britain, they were probably black garden ants, known as Lasius niger – Europe’s most common ant.

From fairly obscure beginnings in the mid-20th century, the practice of yoga in Britain has become a massively popular pastime.

Americans and others around the world have turned increasingly to dietary supplements in order to maintain or preserve their brain health.

UK employees have the longest working week compared to other workers in the European Union. But, despite the long hours, recent studies have shown this does not make the UK a more productive nation.

You may be familiar with the idea that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes – fungi, bacteria and viruses – that are vital for keeping you healthy.

Maybe it’s a bride standing in a hot chapel, or an exhausted runner after a race. It could be someone watching a medical procedure on television or a donor at a blood drive.

You vacuum it, sweep it and wipe it off your furniture. But do you know what it actually is – and how it may affect your health?

Have Americans forgotten how to cook? Many lament the fact that Americans spend less time cooking than they did in previous generations. 

It’s not unusual to slap a muzzle on a dog if it’s being aggressive or not keen on being given an injection, but a muzzle is not part of your average cat’s wardrobe.

You might feel bad about having a less-than-manicured lawn, but it’s great for bees and other pollinators.