Dry skin, or xeroderma and xerosis, occurs in 40% to 60% of all adults, especially in winter. It occurs in 70% to 99% of adults aged 60 years of age or older and increases with age.

A team led by HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shan Meltzer has created a detailed, cell-by-cell map of the spinal cord that offers a new framework for understanding chronic pain and provides a powerful new ...

As Canada still finds itself in winter’s grip, we should practice extra vigilance to prevent slips and falls on the cold, icy ...

Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

Arsenic Toxicity, Encephalopathy, Seafood, Organic Arsenic, Inorganic Arsenic, Altered Mental Status Johnson, S. (2026) Arsenic Encephalopathy Associated with Excessive Seafood Consumption: A Case ...

When news of Bangladesh’s withdrawal from the ICC T20 World Cup hit, I was at the India-Bangladesh border, chatting to a BSF jawan. He was on his usual six-or-eight hour standingp duty, leaning ...

We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, ...

Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) was first introduced in 2014 by the International Olympic Committee’s expert writing panel, identifying a syndrome of deleterious health and performance ...

President Trump on Wednesday touted the decline in U.S. trade deficit ahead of official data showing a small reduction in the country’s overall balance of trade. In a Wednesday night post on Truth ...

Violent crime fell dramatically in 2025, in what experts expect to be the year with the sharpest drop in homicides in recorded history. The decline, detailed in two recent reports of major U.S. cities ...