James Hamblin

Despite the fact that fruits and vegetables are the only foods that experts encourage us to eat with ...

If you go to the emergency room after acute alcohol intoxication (hungover), you'll be given IV hydration. In ...

Working out with someone you perceive to be "better" than you has been found to lead to 200 percent increases ...

News media are constantly panicking about the health effects of "screen time," but almost anything can be done ...

Melanoma is one of the most treatable forms of cancer when it's detected early. Still, it is among ...

If there's one aspect of the child-rearing process that deserves more attention and consideration, it's the effects on ...

Writer Patricia Marx (Saturday Night Live, The New Yorker) tried every brain-enhancing product she could find. She tells James ...

If you walk along South Beach right now, you might notice something strange, even by Florida standards: Dotting ...

A group of chefs in New York is teaching public schools how to make healthier versions of classic lunches—using only the ingredients available ...

Carrying around a coffee cup full of hot meat stock is somehow cool, as James Hamblin learned when ...

More and more people are trying cryotherapy. They believe freezing themselves helps treat an array of illnesses, but ...

Do you ever go to parties just to look at beautiful people and listen to them chatter about ...

What causes an otherwise healthy person to develop a dramatic renal failure?  "On further questioning, the patient admitted ...

Would people eat healthier if celery was called "cool celery?" James Hamblin investigates the logic of food names ...

Almost one in three American homes now has a pod-based coffee machine, even though John Sylvan, the inventor ...

"Alaskans are the best in the nation in terms of exercise," explained Dan Witters, a research director at ...

Eggs are back, indeed, as many headlines were celebrating yesterday. And aspartame is probably okay in moderation, though ...

Many pills and capsules sold as herbal "supplements" contain little more than powdered rice and house plants, according ...

Amit Sood's website, stressfree.org, is couched in the self-help jargon that scientists instinctively dismiss. So it's especially interesting ...

Cooking for yourself is one of the surest ways to eat well. Bestselling author Mark Bittman teaches James ...

Most people are wrong, according to physicist Ruben Meerman and biochemist Andrew Brown. Their calculations were published yesterday ...

At Scientific Sessions 2014, a meeting of the American Heart Association in sunny Chicago, doctors announced results of ...

If I run a Turkey Trot in the morning can I eat the turkey skin? —Sophie Gilbert, Washington, ...

Most Americans don't get enough sleep. More and more employers are trying to help address that.   This ...

Dr. Zeke Emanuel recently announced that he will stop receiving life-prolonging medical care at age 75. James Hamblin ...

There are a handful of junctures in life when a person's sense of purpose is prone to twinkle ...

 In light of many recent articles touting people's judgmental abilities, Olivola and Princeton University's Friederike Funk and Alexander ...