Your humble author has pretensions to theory and here is one for your consideration dear reader. Bear with me, but here it is in a nutshell. Governments and policymakers keep drumming it into our ears ...

Does your joint pain increase during cold months? Everyone knows, or at least remembers, a friend or family member who claims to predict weather patterns based on a feeling in their joints. It turns ...

Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Pain management has had a long and checkered history in this country. When I started the pain management division at Johns Hopkins, the dominant clinical approach was to ignore pain that had no ...

Think of a conspiracy theorist. How do they see the world? What stands out to them? What fades into the background? Now think of yourself. How does the way you see things differ? What is it about the ...

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way. By Carl Zimmer Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that ...

For some people with injuries or arthritis, a drop in the temperature means an increase in knee pain. Why does this happen? Studies of how the weather might affect pain in your knees and other joints ...