Strategic planning is typically thought of in terms of how large businesses and nations design a plan of action to accomplish their specific goals — but it is a fabulous tool for individuals as well.
In a cavernous basement laboratory at the University of Minnesota,Thomas Stoffregen thrusts another unwitting study subject — well, me — into the “moving room.
A gene receptor called “melanocortin-1″ (MC1R) influences skin tone and hair color. One mutation in MC1R leads to red hair and light skin.
The lunar cycle has been tied to a range of mysterious powers, from increases in violent crimes and hospital admissions to fertility and blood loss, and scientists consider most such beliefs nonsensical.
If you’ve had problems sleeping and have taken a pill to help, you’re not alone.
Over the past decade, in study after study in animals and people, exercise has been shown to improve the ability to learn and remember. But the specifics of that process have remained hazy.
Higher blood-sugar levels, even those well short of diabetes, seem to raise the risk of developing dementia, a major new study has found.
Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, both part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified the cells in two distinc
Every woman has her own definition of success. But there are certain traits that most successful women share.
At a party I recently attended, a woman in her 60s proudly announced that her periodic facial treatments “have made me look 10 years younger.