Jackie Joyner-Kersee on Improving Communities From Within
The Olympic medalist went back home to East St. Louis. Now, she wants the next generation to do the same. More »
Lindsay Abrams is an editorial fellow with The Atlantic Health channel. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times.
The Olympic medalist went back home to East St. Louis. Now, she wants the next generation to do the same. More »
Reducing the demand for costly nursing home living can come down to a hot meal. More »
Digesting formula can be toxic to cells that line the gastrointestinal tract. More »
In South Dakota, long-distance doctoring is bringing health care to rural communities. More »
Despite physical and cognitive decline, older age is associated with higher self-ratings of successful aging. More »
People who thought they ate more felt less hungry later. More »
The death rate for people who never had children was up to 4 times higher than that of biological and adoptive parents. More »
A researcher's struggle to get players and leagues to cooperate in a study of traumatic brain injury More »
Why, with age, people appear to lose the gut instinct that protects us from scams and shady deals More »
Non-stop reminiscing about Decembers past may cut down your gas bill. More »
Those in traditional relationships are more satisfied, sexually and otherwise, and better at communicating. More »
Divorcees encouraged to express themselves through writing had a harder time moving on. More »
A great way to get people to work out more is to make them feel inadequate. More »
Consequences attributed to our reliance on fossil fuels occurring in the Antarctic Ocean More »
The 20 percent increase in type 2 diabetes is independent of total sugar consumption and obesity. More »
Women seeking a "designer vagina" are increasingly misled and misinformed. More »
Patients pushed the hardest showed the most improvement. More »
New evidence that they're not just opening their mouths really wide More »
We should be able to be both obese and happy. So why are the two conditions so often linked? More »
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