Health

Alphabet’s health division gets FDA clearance to test EKG smartwatch feature

By Dieter Bohn January 18

17 comments / new

Largest US twin study probes whether nature or nurture makes us sick

By Angela Chen January 16

Journalist Rose George explains the mysteries of blood

By Angela Chen January 14

Poop research might get a more polite name

By Rachel Becker January 11

16 comments / new

New therapist guidelines receive criticism for claim that traditional masculinity harms men

By Angela Chen January 11

New smartphone app can detect overdoses and call for help

By Angela Chen January 10

How we know the oldest person who ever lived wasn’t faking her age

By Angela Chen January 9

Why doctors are worried about the Apple Watch EKG

By Angela Chen January 8

Withings’ new smartwatch has an EKG sensor to compete with the Apple Watch

By Ashley Carman January 6

7 comments / new

As tech companies move into health care, here’s what to watch in 2019

By Angela Chen January 3

Why we don’t have a hangover cure yet

By Angela Chen December 21

Big tobacco just spent $12.8 billion to get a taste of Juul

By Mary Beth Griggs and Rachel Becker December 20

New study finds that marijuana can reprogram sperm genes

By Angela Chen December 19

It’s getting easier to get FDA clearance — just ask Natural Cycles

By Hannah Harris Green December 19

What it means that the Surgeon General now calls vaping an ‘epidemic’

By Rachel Becker December 18

42 comments / new

Teens are turning away from cigarettes and alcohol and toward vaping

By Angela Chen December 17

Is vaping better than smoking? Scientists studied pee to find out

By Rachel Becker December 14

18 comments / new

Why we might want the school day to start later

By Angela Chen December 12

Machine learning could help figure out what pooped on your produce

By Rachel Becker December 12

5 comments / new

Apple releases new Beddit sleep tracker

By Dami Lee December 7

43 comments / new

A history of body horrors from distended scrotums to exploding teeth

By Rachel Becker December 6

1 comment / new

The problem with studies saying phones are bad for you

By Rachel Becker December 5

35 comments / new

What marijuana does to your sex life

By Angela Chen December 4

Growing hemp is about to be legal for the first time in nearly a century

By Angela Chen November 30

Flawed DNA editing of alleged ‘designer babies’ may have put their health at risk

By Angela Chen November 29

The Apple Watch Series 4’s electrocardiogram feature is reportedly coming with watchOS 5.1.2

By Chaim Gartenberg November 28

31 comments / new

Amazon will reportedly sell software that reads medical records

By Angela Chen November 27

Romaine lettuce from California linked to E. coli outbreak

By Rachel Becker November 26

12 comments / new

If someone wants to create gene-edited babies, who would stop them?

By Angela Chen November 26

Woman rejected for transplant told to raise money via ‘fundraising effort’

By Andrew Liptak November 25

41 comments / new

Why the future of marijuana farming could be craft weed

By Angela Chen November 21

Juul’s nicotine salts are dominating the market — and other companies want in

By Rachel Becker November 21

30 comments / new

More Stories