60-Second Health

Hair care pros often spot possible skin cancers on the scalp. Dermatologists recommend they be trained to do it more and... Read more

Researchers tracked 70,000 for decades to find lifestyle clues for better cardiovascular condition. Dina Fine Maron repo... Read more

Women who ate half of 1,400 daily calories at breakfast lost almost 80 percent more weight than women who ate half their... Read more

The lone star tick has been fingered as the carrier of a recently characterized infectious disease called Heartland viru... Read more

Understanding that, for example, anorexics and autists both tend to have high interest in systems could inform treatment... Read more

Volunteers who read from an iPad before bed took longer to fall asleep and had less restful nights than when they read f... Read more

People who ate chocolate frequently consumed more calories and more saturated fat, yet had lower average body mass index... Read more

In rural Nepal volunteer motorcyclists are transporting snakebite victims to medical care soon enough to cut deaths by 9... Read more

Signals to improve muscle tone alter the expression of genes after just one workout. Katherine Harmon reports

Mice fed an alternating high-fat and low-fat diet lived almost as long as mice on a constant low-fat diet--and longer th... Read more

Between 1999 and 2010 changes in seafood consumption meant that blood levels of mercury in women of childbearing age dro... Read more

Eating-behavior expert Brian Wansink offers tips on fooling yourself into eating less. Katherine Harmon reports

Bones are filled with a viscous fluid that’s key to their function as support structures, and which could inform osteopo... Read more

Just a couple of hours of physical activity each week adds years to average life expectancy. Katherine Harmon reports

People with type 2 diabetes in middle age had greater cognitive impairment in the following decades than did their nondi... Read more

Married women gain weight but survive bypass surgery better than unmarried people do. Katherine Harmon reports on two st... Read more

Exposure to bright light in the morning appears linked to reduced appetite and lower body weight, regardless of sleep pa... Read more

Stan Conte, vice president of medical services for the L.A. Dodgers, advised parents and coaches of young athletes to no... Read more

Yoga may increase parasympathetic nervous system activity and neurotransmitter levels, helping to decrease symptoms of s... Read more

Residues of the antimicrobial agent triclosan can paradoxically boost bacterial growth in our bodies, by giving microbes... Read more