For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...

Serial PFAS biomonitoring at delivery and ages 3, 8, and 12 enabled assessment of exposure windows against DXA-derived BMD at six skeletal sites at age 12. PFOA showed the most consistent signal, with ...

The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a ...

Ethylene oxide rarely makes headlines, yet it quietly sterilizes about half of all medical devices used in the United States. Now, the gas is at the center of a heated regulatory battle after the EPA ...

The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to be conservative.

An exhibit at New York's Museum of the Moving Image explores how medical imaging technologies like CT scans and X-rays have reshaped our view of the body — and ourselves.

If rising atmospheric CO₂ is contributing to gradual shifts in blood chemistry at a population level, then the composition of ...

A new study shows extreme heat is increasing worldwide, limiting safe daily activities and raising health risks for millions of people.

For one, white fat is a powerful endocrine organ, releasing hormones like leptin that reduce appetite, as well as adiponectin, which regulates insulin and blood sugar levels. It also cushions organs, ...

Initiated higher-dose CBeyond Expansion Study (Part C) to generate higher-exposure human safety and pharmacokinetic data with 400 mg and 600 mg ...

Researchers found a positive association between the presence of common environmental pollutants in the human body and ...

It's an age old practice that's having a moment right now. But is there anything to the health claims? Scientists say sauna is more than hot air.