Do you remember Dr. Lewis Thomas, the renowned physician-writer? Back in the 1970s, Dr. Thomas wrote an elegant book of essays, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, in which he poetically ...

Brain bleed symptoms include severe headaches, blurred vision, weakness on one side of the body, and a stiff neck. It is a medical emergency that requires hospital treatment. A bleed on the brain is ...

The brain is the “control center” of the body. Together with the spinal cord, it makes up the central nervous system. Various parts of the brain are responsible for movement, breathing, and other ...

Your brain needs a constant supply of oxygen to work properly and survive. But if something interrupts or cuts off the oxygen flow to your brain for 4 minutes or longer, brain cells begin to die. This ...

Diabetes — type 1 or type 2 — is a condition where the body doesn’t produce enough insulin or use insulin properly. Insulin (a hormone created by the pancreas) allows the body to use sugar or glucose ...

YOU may not realise it, but your brain is home to an army of invaders. Riding in on blood vessels and nerve fibres during your first months in the womb, these amorphous creatures colonised every part ...

The communication system between your gut and brain is called the gut-brain axis. They’re connected both physically and biochemically in a number of different ways. They may even influence each ...

Post traumatic stress disorder boosts brain aging in 9/11 rescue team, connected to higher brain age difference which can ...