Whenever you decide to get it, the best time to get the shot is before flu is “widely circulating and with enough time for you to develop immunity,” said Dr. Geeta Sood, an infectious disease ...

UP TO 25 million people across the world may have an “under-recognised and under-researched” form of diabetes. People with the condition – known as type 5 diabetes – may be ...

A new study has significant bearing on the hackneyed joke about chickens and their numerous reasons for crossing roads.

Oh, Costco. It’s as if entering a treasure trove chock full of bulk purchases, from where you can pick up from a humongous jar of pickles to. a flat-screen television in one location. For all of us ...

Why are minerals making waves in the world of fragrance? Perfume enthusiasts often marvel at the depth and complexity of ...

When we think of movement disorders, the tremors associated with Parkinson's disease are probably what first spring to mind.

How did digits evolve? While it is clear that they derive from genetic programs already present in fish, their precise origin ...

Scientists say power—your ability to move quickly—is one of the first fitness skills to fade with age. And it’s not as hard ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function.

It can seem of late that the experiment in evolution we call Homo sapiens has gone horribly wrong, notwithstanding my ability to touch type letters that make words that make ...