When you think you're letting your mind wander for a few minutes, your brain is actually lighting up with a range of emotions, according to a new study.
When quadruple amputee and retired Marine Sgt. John Peck looks down at his new arms, he said, he's overcome with gratitude -- and vows that he will not take them for granted.
Painful sex. A lack of desire. An inability to lubricate. These are some of the most common sexual complaints facing women as they age, yet a majority of women are not getting the help they need from their doctors to solve those problems, according to a new study from the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.
Taking hormonal birth control might be associated with an increased risk for depression compared with those who don't use contraception, according to the study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry last week.
Unlike conventional Western exercises, yoga focuses on the breath, and "that turns out to be the doorway to the autonomic nervous system," one doctor says.
Actor Ben Stiller revealed on Tuesday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2014. The tumor was surgically removed three months later, in September 2014, and Stiller has been cancer-free since then.
Each piece of a bright patchwork space suit named Courage tells a story. Most of the triangles were painted by childhood cancer patients from MD Anderson hospitals, some impossibly young, some on the edge of 17, some in isolated treatment, some in recovery.
Flint, Michigan, is dealing with another outbreak. This time it's an infectious bacterial disease called Shigellosis, which can cause bloody diarrhea and fever and typically spreads when people don't wash their hands.
