Children's picture books enforce "outdated gender stereotypes" when it comes to coping with pain, according to a new study. Boys are more likely to experience pain (53%) than girls (29%) in the books ...

Sitting has often been referred to as the new smoking thanks to its negative health benefits. For the first time ever, according to researchers in England, the flavanols in cocoa have been found to ...

Bengaluru: A new study on prescription of antibiotics has revealed something surprising: The biggest reason doctors prescribe unnecessary antibiotics for children with diarrhoea isn't because they don ...

Lauren Keary is a NASM-certified nutrition coach and fitness/nutrition writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an ex-collegiate rower, and received her M.A. in magazine journalism and B.A.

Reading for pleasure in the U.S. fell 40% over two decades, the study found. Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past ...

From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend. By Maggie Astor Any reader knows the unique delight of ...

Addison Aloian is the associate health & fitness editor at Women’s Health, where she writes and edits across the health, weight loss, and fitness verticals. She’s also a certified personal trainer ...

Picture a humble study. It is situated on a house’s second floor, near the bedrooms, forming an inner sanctum removed from the bustle of the street. A lamp sits on a desk to give a working writer ...

Leggings are some of the most comfortable items in our athleisure wardrobe—but they’re so much more than a pair of stretchy pants. In addition to comfort, leggings are functional pieces of athletic ...

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

Katherine Spoon has received funding from the National Science Foundation. This research was assisted by a Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science ...