You only use 10 percent of your brain. Your memory declines with age. Alcohol kills brain cells. These and other myths, debunked. Brain myth: We only use 10 percent of our brain “This is a brain myth you frequently hear but it’s grossly false,” says Rimas V. Lukas, MD, neuro-oncologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in …

“Hey, do you have a piece of gum?” It’s whispered between desks at school, muttered to close friends after a meal, announced between officemates at work… From Orbit to Juicy Fruit, everyone everywhere seems to be chewing gum. But could chewing gum actually be bad for you? Chewing gum feels like a mix between rubber …

When you’re trying to conceive, the waiting period between when you ovulate and when your period is due can seem endless. And, while you can take a pregnancy test at some point, there’s a set period of time where it’s just too early to know. Still, it’s completely understandable that you’d want to know if …

There’s a solid chance you’ve tweaked your back before—after all, 80 percent of Americans experience some kind of back pain at one point or another in their lives. Usually, it happens in the lower back, rather than the upper back. There’s a reason for that: “The rib cage offers a lot of support and stabilizes …

Stomach pain is one of those things that can be caused by just about anything from too much Mexican food to colon cancer and everything in between. Chronic discomfort warrants seeing your doctor and severe pain that continues to get worse over the course of a few hours should definitely prompt a trip to the …