If you’re a certain age, you’ll remember this lesson from biology class: the adult brain is fully formed at age 20, and each drink of alcohol kills one thousand neurons that can never be replaced. Science then discouraged drinking. But today’s science is much better! It turns out that moderate drinking—a few beers, wines, or …

We’ve all seen a man go wide-eyed and clutch his chest in the movies. But a heart attack can come on without chest pain, especially in women. ‘Two-thirds of women will have less-typical, non-Hollywood heart attack symptoms,’ says C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart …

Exercise is like marmite: some people love it, while others hate it. But if you fall into the latter category, fear not – scientists reckon they’ve found a way to make your time spent in the gym more enjoyable, and it’s pretty simple. Researchers at Brunel University in London have revealed that listening to music …

The way someone smells can play a large part in our attraction to them – though we still maintain we would fancy Tom Hardy even if he smelled like dustbins – and a new study has revealed how a person’s diet affects this. Researchers at Macquarie University in Australia found that women prefer the body …

Antidepressants are highly effective and should be prescribed to millions more people with mental health problems, researchers declared last night. After the largest-ever study, the Oxford University-led team said they had wanted to ‘give the final answer’ to the controversy of whether or not the pills effectively treat depression. Their study, which examined 120,000 people …