Brain Stimulation Can Prompt People To Behave Less Selfishly, Experiment Shows

What does it take to make others behave less selfishly and put others’ needs before their own?

Electrical zaps to the brain can do the trick, a new study shows.

Stimulating two brain areas increased people’s ability to behave altruistically, researchers reported Feb. 10 in the journal PLOS Biology.

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Obesity Linked To 1 In 4 Infectious Disease Deaths In U.S.

Obesity contributes to about 1 in every 4 infectious disease deaths in the United States, the most among wealthy countries, a major new study estimates.

People with obesity have a higher risk of hospitalization or death from infectious diseases ranging from influenza and COVID-19 to stomach flu and urinary tract infections, researchers rep...

Dr. Oz Urges Measles Shots as Outbreaks Grow

As measles outbreaks spread across the United States, a top Trump administration health official is urging families to protect themselves by getting vaccinated.

“Take the vaccine, please,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said during an interview on CNN’s State of th...

Brain-Training Game Linked To Lower Dementia Risk Decades Later

Imagine you’re driving down the street when, out of nowhere, a skateboarder rolls into your path.

You’re looking straight ahead, but can your brain spot the movement in your side vision fast enough for you to hit the brakes?

That split-second moment depends on something called visual processing speed, or how quickly your ...

Can Diet Cure Schizophrenia? RFK Jr. Said Yes — Experts Say No

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that the ketogenic, or keto, diet could cure schizophrenia.

But experts say the claim goes far beyond what science supports.

Speaking at the Tennessee State Capitol, Kennedy told a crowd that diet plays a major role in mental illness. 

He said a Harvard doctor had ...

Lindsey Vonn’s Olympic Comeback Ends in Crash and Broken Leg

Lindsey Vonn’s remarkable attempt to win an Olympic medal against the odds came to a sudden and painful end Sunday, when she crashed just seconds into the women’s downhill race and broke her left leg.

Vonn, 40, was skiing in a knee brace only nine days after tearing the ACL in her left knee. She was hoping to make history at th...