The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

The way you walk, something you likely perform automatically thousands of times daily, contains a wealth of information about your overall health. Gait analysis, once primarily the domain of elite ...

A new study by scientists has uncovered four groups of health problems that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease. It is thought that the discovery, made by researchers at the University of ...

Working long hours earlier in life may be linked to worse health as you age, a study has found. Wen-Jui Han, from New York University, analyzed data from more than 7,000 people in the United States, ...

There are 10,080 minutes in a week. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), everyone should devote at least 150 of those minutes to moderate-to-vigorous exercise. However, the WHO doesn’t ...

A new study has found that breathing does more than just move air in and out of your lungs—it could even be used to identify who you are. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel ...