Social rejection isn't just emotionally unsettling, it can also impact your heart in a literal sense, according to a new study which finds that being romantically rejected makes your heart rate drop…

A new study says sodium nitrate, like you get if you eat plenty of vegetables, reverses features of metabolic syndrome in mice.    Metabolic syndrome is the list of risk factors…

If you get an injury, you might clench your hand.  It turns out there is a brain-related reason for that,  namely a somatosensory body one.   Perception and multisensory interactions…

Tendons connect bones to muscles so if you want to run during a football game or fight a Trojan War, they are important.   If you didn't understand the clever pun in the title, the only…

A new study in Heart says a combination of depression and heart disease is far more lethal than either one of those condition alone. Depressed people are more likely to die from all causes so it's…

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is quite common these days, with over 4 million children born following IVF treatments worldwide and it is generally regarded as a safe technique, but some scientific…

The downside to PLoS One forcing out almost 8000 articles this year will be that a lot of them won't have any legitimate peer review, despite shrill objections to my noting in even the nicest…

End-stage renal disease, or chronic kidney failure, affects more than 500,000 people per year in the United States alone and is only fully treated with a kidney transplant.  Yet there were only…

Is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) too often confused with immaturity or just young age?  It may be, according to new research by a Michigan State University economist published…

Drug trials conducted by the very pharmaceutical company with an obvious vested interest in a positive result are far more likely to yield a... positive result! Perhaps not earth-shattering news to…