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Your body creates its own collagen by combining amino acids. The process also uses vitamin C, zinc and copper, so you can ...

This new piece of the body’s immune defense could open new pathways to improved antibiotics and other medicinal therapies.

If you want to perform at your best in the water, you need to keep warm. Here, Professor Mike Tipton highlights the body parts that it's most important to insulate ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

Researchers from the University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Caltech have developed a ...

It is a large part of the body that lies deep inside, out of sight and perhaps out of mind: your abdominal core. A new and ...

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The appendix is one of the most well-known body parts that people can live without. For years, it was considered pretty much ...

A woman made an alarming discovery after getting an elective full-body MRI scan through a company called Prenuvo. As People reports, Sarah Blackburn ended up getting her spleen surgically removed ...

There are several methods for measuring body fat. You measure it at home or with the help of a professional, such as a healthcare provider, physical therapist, or personal trainer. Remember that all ...