Welcome to your body without bones. This essential part of your anatomy has suddenly gone. What happens now? How would this ...

The challenge with parasites is that the symptoms are subtle. They can live silently in the intestine, blood stream, organs ...

So many women come to see me with the same complaint; they feel disconnected and disenchanted, cut off from something authentic and vital inside themselves. They describe being hyper-aware of what ...

Interoception is how your brain senses and responds to what’s going on inside your body. “It’s how we know when we’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, or even need to take a deep breath,” says Wen G. Chen, ...

T he severe swelling of hereditary angioedema (HAE) can be uncomfortable and inconvenient at best, life-threatening at worst. What’s more, symptoms are unpredictable, vary in severity, and crop up out ...

We all have bodies and we all have feelings about them, yet so few of us have been taught how to think about our body image in a productive way. Deb Schachter, LICSW and Whitney Otto, MA, authors of ...

As you age, you lose muscle and gain visceral fat around your organs. Scientists say your visceral fat to muscle ratio may ...

Medical implants such as pacemakers and gastric stimulators have improved our lives, but the batteries in these devices eventually run out and require surgery to replace them. It raises a futuristic ...