For years, clinicians have noticed that people living with major depression often show unexpectedly fragile bones. What ...

New research suggests the astringent sensation caused by flavanols could act as a direct signal to the brain, triggering ...

Astringency is the dry, puckering, rough, or sandpapery feeling people notice when eating foods rich in certain plant compounds called polyphenols ...

Abstract: Since higher-order tensors are naturally suitable for representing multi-dimensional data in real-world, e.g., color images and videos, low-rank tensor representation has become one of the ...

For decades, patients with inflammatory bowel disease have reported a familiar and frustrating pattern: periods of intense ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m a founder, writer and lecturer focusing on VC funds. BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 24: A technician works in a lab at Sinovac ...

Function Health, a startup that offers lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, scored nearly $300 million in series B funding, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion. Redpoint Ventures ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Function Health CEO Jonathan Swerdlin Many people have low-level risk factors, such as early signs of heart disease, smoldering inside their body. But ...