The weight counseling approach emphasized a low-carb diet, with participants logging better weight loss, less use of diabetes medications, and fewer potentially dangerous episodes of plummeting blood sugar levels compared to study participants who only attended group diabetes sessions.

Biodiversity is critically important – to your health, to your safety and, probably, to your business or livelihood.

Can kindness, love and a strong sense of community actually make you healthier and happier? Research says that it does. A 1978 study looking at the link between high cholesterol and heart health in rabbits determined that kindness made the difference between a healthy heart and a heart attack.

You’ve got problems. Perhaps more than you know. Apart from all the usual woes - work, relationships, money, time - the civilized life may also be causing you psychological trauma.

Big data, personalized medicine, artificial intelligence. String these three buzzphrases together, and what do you have?

Researchers have made the breakthrough of couch potatoes’ dreams with a new drug that mimics some of the most important effects of exercise. Scientists from Deakin University in Melbourne published their findings in Cell Reports earlier this week, showing that overweight mice who were given the drug no longer showed signs of cardiovascular disease.