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Despite being more common than schizophrenia or bipolar disorder combined, borderline personality disorder remains one of the least understood and most stigmatized mental illnesses. It’s so misunderstood and stigmatized,...

A roundup of this week’s health-and-wellness stories, from the latest in hard science to the strangest head-scratchers hurtling through the...

Sometimes the numbers say it all. Such is the case with this WomensHealth.gov infographic, which illustrates the potential impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on women's health care....

A roundup of this week’s health-and-wellness stories, from the latest in hard science to the strangest head-scratchers hurtling through the...

Here’s something you may not know about seasonal affective disorder, or SAD: Although less common, it can also hit in the...

Jolie, whose mother died from cancer at the age of 56, discovered through genetic testing that she had a harmful mutation of the BRCA1 gene. She went through three months of procedures, including reconstructive surgeries, to...

We don’t know why rumors start, but sometimes “conventional wisdom” is not always so accurate. In honor of National Women’s Health Week May 12 through 18, we set out to debunk some common myths to help women take...

The idea that meditation can affect the body at a genetic level is making headlines once again, this time in a paper published on the PLOS One science website. Relaxation exercises in subjects who never practiced such...

To cope with a bleak diagnosis of osteosarcoma, 17-year-old Zach Sobiech wrote a song and posted a video of it on YouTube. After it went viral, a group of celebrities put together their own heartfelt tribute to Sobiech: a...

A new ad campaign uses lenticular images to display separate anti-abuse messages to parents and kids, so that even children walking with their aggressors can take note without alerting the adult....