Engaging System 2 requires significant metabolic energy. Your brain consumes a lot of your body’s energy as it is; intense ...

A 2022 study estimates that at-home flu tests have a sensitivity of about 63% if the test is performed within 72 hours of ...

Cardiologist Dr. Puneet Verma shared a simple 3-minute "step test" to assess cardiovascular fitness. Participants step up and down on a 12-inch platform for three minutes, completing 72 steps.

A pair of doctors have revealed a simple trick that could be a better gauge of someone's health than the body mass index (BMI). Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, wife of the late Dr Michael Mosley, teamed up ...

When it comes to gut health, one of the most important, and also overlooked, is gut transit time. This factor determines how long food takes to travel through the digestive tract. Although there are ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

You've had a disastrous interaction with the person closest to you in the world. It's likely you'll get past this, but until you do, you can hardly think about anything else. Unfortunately, you can't ...

In a breakthrough for diagnostics, scientists have created an easy and effective test that identifies a heart failure biomarker in saliva, opening the door to more rapid and accessible life-saving ...

Scientists discovered that certain blood proteins linked to brain injury and inflammation strongly correlate with early signs of memory and cognitive decline, especially in Hispanic and Latino adults.

EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. (NEWS10) — An East Greenbush woman said a simple medical test helped save her life. Now she and her doctor want to share a critical message about heart health. “I was somebody who ...

If you were curious to get a picture of your longevity, you could invest in a fancy “biological age” blood test or even commit to pricey full-body imaging. But research suggests there’s a much more ...

Diagnosing endometriosis could soon be much easier thanks to a new at home-test that can detect a biomarker for the disease in period blood. The pregnancy-like test created by researchers at the ...