Why Some People are Crushed by Colds and Others Get Off Easy
There are more than 170 rhinoviruses known to science. These causes of the common cold are found in noses all around you, and while rhinovirus infections tend to yield lots…
What They Do and Why We Need Them
The kids, work deadlines, what’s for dinner… these are the kinds of things that often occupy our thoughts. What’s going on inside our cells? Not so much. However, our cellular…
Understanding Blood Pressure in a Healthy Way
Ever since I first entered the medical field, something struck me as off about the relentless focus on blood pressure, and over time I noticed that the blood pressures people…
The Deaths Doctors Never Thought They’d See in the U.S.
Of every 1,000 people the measles virus infects, it may kill as few as one to three. In a way, this can seem merciful. But the mathematics of measles is…
Can Dreams Help You Solve Problems?
In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows…
Why Chronic Kidney Disease So Often Ends in Heart Problems
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects more than 800 million people worldwide and causes over 3 million deaths each year. In the United States alone, roughly 35 million people — more…
The Skin-Care Industry Is Coming for Toddlers
Kids love to imitate their parents, and in Shay Mitchell’s home, that meant her daughters wanted to copy her face-mask routine. Mitchell, an actor best known for her role in…
Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler
Think back to the first thing you remember: Candles on your birthday cake, the wiry fur of a childhood dog, the smell of your mother’s perfume. Whatever the memory, chances…
Ultra Creamy Lip Butter
Lip balm, lip gloss, lip stick, and now lip butter. I’ve created lots of different natural lip products over the years to replace all the tubes of lip products I…
Serotonin Is Both a Biomarker and Driver of Osteoporosis
You’re taking your calcium. You’re doing weight-bearing exercise. Your doctor says your bone scan “looks fine for your age.” Then one day you sneeze, turn the wrong way, or trip…