A recent survey found that 70% of adults over 50 experience joint pain. Here's what it could mean—and the expert-backed ways to ease it.

HAZLETON, Pa. - Questions continue to surround a death investigation in Luzerne County. Hazleton City Police say this is the first homicide case they have had in several years. "It was not a ...

In order to learn more, NewsCenter 5 spoke to Dr. Paul Dellaripa, a rheumatologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who talked about the impact of wildfire smoke on the human body.

That ultimately means that a human's ability to squat or even shake hands with another person ties into the origin of ancient fish. Importantly, synovial joints don't always form on their own; muscle ...

Human rights experts in Washington are divided over whether the U.S. withdrawal from a United Nations body on human rights will hurt North Korea’s already poor human rights situation.

But we’ve learned quite a lot of fascinating things about the human body this year, too, in relation to topics ranging from eye and uterus transplants to vitamin D levels and aging. Here are a ...

You should wear a hat in winter weather, but not because you lose most of your body heat through your head. Let’s debunk that and other myths about the human body. 1. Misconception: You lose ...

New research based on the findings, published in several papers Wednesday in Nature and its sister journals, represents a “leap in understanding of the human body,” according to the Human Cell ...

Researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium report significant progress in their quest for a better understanding of the cells of the human body in health and disease, with the ...

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

The easiest organs to replace are those that function relatively straightforwardly and mechanically, such as bones, skin, or corneas. Other organs are more complex, such as kidneys, which not only ...

For 150 years, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit was thought to be the average body temperature for a healthy human being. But that number is wrong. “Doctors are no different from anybody else,” says ...