Nitric oxide isn’t a nutrient you’ll find on food packaging — but it plays a critical role in how your body moves, recovers, and circulates blood. This molecule helps blood vessels relax and widen, ...

For hundreds of years, humans have bred dogs to selectively enhance certain behavioral and physical traits. Some crossed two different types of dogs to intensify their hunting or guarding capabilities ...

Metabolic diseases or disorders interrupt the normal processes of metabolism within the body, the many chemical reactions responsible for breaking down food and either using, storing, or disposing of ...

Coughing up blood, known medically as hemoptysis, can be a truly unsettling experience. Though pop culture has instilled the idea that coughing up blood is a sign of a deadly disease, this is not ...

"Schrödinger's cat" is one of those phrases that gets wheeled out every now and again in conversation. Yet for those who have never been a student of physics, or at least heard Sheldon’s explanation ...

Age regression has been an important topic of psychology since the early days of psychoanalysis in the late 180os. It has been the topic of the theses, the starting place for a number of theories, and ...

In 1968, Dr. Richard Hornberger wrote a novel under the pseudonym Richard Hooker, using his experiences in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Several years later, his novel served as ...

The prevalence of plastic surgery in celebrity circles and throughout Hollywood means that we get so used to seeing altered faces, we assume everyone's doing it. While there's no shame in making ...

Given the fact we're hurtling towards the new roaring 20s, it's time 1920s hairstyles and fashion got their renaissance. It's a shame the hairdos sported by Josephine Baker and Louise Brooks went out ...

It's often said that a woman's hair is her glory. Sometimes, though, you might wish that you didn't have so much glory to maintain. Perhaps you're making big changes in your life and you want a new, ...

Some conditions are straightforward to diagnose, while others can be more challenging. Whether it is due to symptoms that overlap with other conditions or a lack of symptoms altogether, it can be ...

A seroma is a benign collection of fluid that sometimes develops after surgery or an injury. This fluid consists of blood plasma from ruptured blood vessels and inflammatory fluid from damaged and ...