Feeling a bit sick? Wondering if you're coming down with something? If your first instinct is to turn to Google for a little self-diagnosis, maybe think again. That's the advice from a recent study at Australia's Edith Cowan University, published in the Medical Journal of Australia. The research suggests that mobile- and web-based symptom checkers are wrong roughly two-thirds of the time. Researchers analyzed 36 different online self-diagnosis tools and found them to yield an

Alzheimer's disease and other dementias can have devastating effects. Neuroscience is searching for ways to offset, delay, or prevent these maladies; after all, even brain scientists age. Now, a new study from scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University may have hit on an easy way to keep your brain running at optimal health for longer. Researchers looked at 2,800 people age 50 and older to study the long-term re

Welcome back to our Sleep Series, a string of blog posts about the role of sleep in our lives, including the benefits of achieving enough slumber and tips to help make it happen. As life grows increasingly stressful and complicated, it becomes more and more important to perform the necessary steps to take care of yourself, sleep being key among them. If you have an injury or a chronic pain issue, relaxing enough to get seven to nine hours of nightly sleep can be tough. A 2015