A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a ...

Michael Anthony Tanzi was executed via lethal injection on Tuesday, but his legal team claimed he was too 'morbidly obese' for the execution ...

Faecal transplants can boost the immune systems of patients with advanced cancer, improving their response to immunotherapy.

Although RFK Jr. is correct in suggesting that rates of obesity have surged in recent decades, his nostalgia for the past obscures a longer history of America’s struggle ... one writer complained that ...

A Republic reader is concerned about the effects of air pollution on children, and wants to know how to push for change.

the ancient Roman equivalent of "Merry Christmas ... politically correct transformation: Worried that his obesity sets the wrong impression, some greeting card companies have started to feature ...

Thanksgiving, our national harvest celebration, is a good day to remember our collective food history, and an even ... and they can help control diabetes, obesity and heart disease.

Queen Toda approached Córdoba’s great ruler, the caliph ’Abd al-Rahman III, with two bold requests: help with a cure for her grandson’s morbid obesity ... dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ...

OPINION- In America today, we think that what we have is all that we own. We have possessions like our homes, our phones, our families, jobs, food and clothing, entertainments, friends. We truly ...

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The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...