Ever been to the doctor's office for an exam, expressed a concern and had the doctor ask, "Is that normal for you?" Our bodies and their systems have their own unique traits and set points - their ...

In a country obsessed with body image, chronic disease, health care, food shows, fast food, vegan and raw food diets as well as high protein diets and supplements, one can’t help but wonder what is ...

In 1850, a German physician named Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich began taking his patients’ temperature. Over the next eighteen years he would measure the internal body heat of some 25,000 people who ...

On November 5, 2009, not long after 1 p.m., Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan approached a long line of soldiers awaiting medical screening at a soldier readiness center at Fort Hood, Texas. After ...