Stress is increasingly impacting physical and mental health due to societal, technological, and personal pressures. Key ...

About one in eight adults in the United States has tried or currently uses a GLP-1 medication, and a quarter of those users cite weight loss as their main goal.

A single gene that regulates testosterone levels in a 'crazy' species of shore bird controls the development of three wildly different types of males, a new study has found. Ruffs have long fascinated ...

What is Cushing's syndrome? Cushing's syndrome is a hormonal disorder. It’s caused when you have high levels of the hormone cortisol over a long time. Cushing's syndrome is fairly rare. It most often ...

There are three morphs in ruffs that differ in their appearance and mating behavior. Males of the aggressive Independents (left) have more testosterone in their blood than the other two morphs (a male ...

“Overall, female sex was associated with a 1.31-times higher risk of long COVID,” researchers said. “In age-stratified analyses, female sex was associated with the highest risk of long COVID among ...

Scientists discover key mechanisms linking menopause to increased osteoarthritis risk, offering hope for targeted treatments and prevention strategies.

The first evidence pointing to the unique daily problems faced by alpha male baboons arrived in 2011, when Gesquiere and colleagues identified that the animals displayed higher amounts of ...

Still, the study on alpha male baboons highlights an important lesson: leadership comes with challenges, and constant stress ...

A growing body of research has found that some foods can help your body produce optimal levels of hormones that are essential ...

At the same time, heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., affecting nearly half of adults aged 20 and ...

Knowing what foods lower testosterone is just one part of eating for hormonal health. It might also help to prioritize foods ...