Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

New studies show that first-born daughters really do have it the hardest — and that's great news for the rest of us.

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One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

Thousands of potentially toxic plastic chemicals can migrate from food processing and packaging into the human body, a new ...

That plastic wrap you find around the food you eat is far from benign: A new study shows that more than 3,600 chemicals leach ...

Policymakers and health researchers are increasingly recognising the harms of stigmatising language and attitudes towards ...

A recent review has uncovered the widespread presence of food contact chemicals (FCC) in humans, identifying 3,601 chemicals used in food packaging and related products found in the human body. The st ...

"Human evolution has occurred both due to, and in spite of, the placenta. Every pregnancy, unthinkingly, must navigate a ...

Native Americans living in coastal Northern California during the Mission era were presumed to experience high rates of ...

The Giant Heart and Baldwin Locomotive take center stage in Body Odyssey and Hamilton Collections Gallery—Opening November 23 ...

Like many veterans, Victor Carl Honey was neglected by the government after serving in the U.S. Army for 10 years, spending ...