Cognitive functioning affects how people think and their ability to remember things. Impairment in this area of brain health may cause a decline in how someone responds to their environment mentally ...

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The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Mistakes, whether spoken or promised, are universal. The feeling of putting our foot in our mouth arises from a key executive function that our brain controls: stopping ourselves. However, the ...

Before The Life of a Showgirl was ever a glimmer in Taylor Swift’s eye, the singer peppered her music with references to classic literature. As early as 2006, Swift included a nod to Robert Frost’s ...

When life is calm, for most people, it is relatively easy to maintain equilibrium and equanimity. The challenge is holding steady when you’re buffeted by internal and external storms. In traditional ...

The study found that by using age-, sex-, and race-specific reference intervals, they can reclassify many patients who are thought to have thyroid disease, especially those with subclinical thyroid ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...

Brad LaCour is a Senior List Writer for Collider. Based out of Los Angeles, California, Brad lives close enough to the stars but is too busy to find out where exactly they live. Brad is fairly certain ...