Health

If sorting your laundry is more than you can handle, it might be time to talk to your doctor.

On March 26, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk went on CBS radio to announce his vaccine for poliomyelitis. He had worked for three years to develop the polio vaccine, attacking a disease that killed 3000 Americans in 1952 alone, along with 58,000 newly reported cases

Channel your inner Popeye.

An anonymous note left on Richard Simmons’s car window changed the soon-to-be-superstar’s life forever.

Alcohol, opium, and leeches to treat a cold? No, thank you! Here are seven old-timey cold remedies that are better left in the past.

Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse by Rembrandt van Rijn. De Lairesse, a painter and art theorist, had congenital syphilis that deformed his face and eventually blinded him.

The origins of syphilis may be one of the greatest (and grossest) health mysteries of our time. What we do know is that, throughout history, people were quick to point fingers at each other.

There was a perfectly sound reason why physicians advised patients to capture farts in a bottle.

It could save the U.S. $77 billion (or more) in healthcare costs and reduce each person’s greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 500 pounds per year.

Knowing your chronotype can help you make better food choices.

Epicured's offerings are 100 percent low FODMAP and gluten-free.

Notorious RBG can bench press 70 pounds.

At least according to one bowel expert.

The makeover was triggered by a lawsuit alleging that the drinks' packaging misled customers.

Here's how to lower the chances of giving the mucus-glazed plague to someone else.

Contrary to prior reports, the new study found that living with a cat before birth or in childhood did not increase adolescents’ risk of experiencing psychotic episodes.