Your relationship status might be associated with your dementia risk, and a new research review paper reveals how. Dementia, a loss of brain function, usually occurs in older age. The most common type is Alzheimer’s disease. People who have been single all of their lives could have a 42% higher risk of developing dementia than …

Clearing the air adult women are about twice as likely to have asthma as men. New work in mice finds that testosterone impacts immune cells involved in the disease. Testosterone may tamp down asthma caused by inhaling pollen, dust or other airborne allergens. That’s partly why more women suffer from the lung disease than men, …

A whopping 82% of babies born each year are placed in the arms of millennial mothers. And they’re in for a wild ride. Millennial moms and dads are doing things differently from any other generation before them. Below, Business Insider has collected some of the defining traits of millennials’ parenting style, according to researchers and …

You have probably seen the unremarkable crooked ginger root and not known what to do with it. But its useful medicinal properties have been well known since ancient times. It’s a source of vitamins, micronutrients, and essential oils that have strengthening, invigorating, and anti-inflammatory effects on the body. Some useful recipes to strengthen your health …

Childhood trauma alters genes and can be passed onto future generations, new research has found. A study examining the offspring of children displaced during the Second World War revealed they were up to four times more likely to suffer from serious mental health conditions compared to those whose parents stayed at home. In the largest …