For older adults who may otherwise be food-insecure, participating in food assistance benefits may be associated with a ...

Traditionally, cortisol levels must be measured in a doctor’s office or other clinical setting. But a new advance in the ...

Cortisol is a crucial hormone that regulates many important bodily functions like blood pressure and metabolism, and ...

Is having melanin good or bad? In addition to contributing "to the diversity of the human appearance with varying skin, hair and eye colors," Portela says, melanin serves other important functions.

Because of the important function folate plays in the healthy growth of the baby's brain and spinal cord especially, "it's crucial in preventing birth defects," he says.

Regular erections could be important for maintaining erectile function, according to a new study on mice published in Science by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. “We discovered that an ...