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FUMBLING in your pocket to play with your iPod can ruin your concentration while running. Now you won’t even have to break stride to change a track with a device…

ELBOWS up, back straight! Like a personal weightlifting coach, a new workout tracking system can monitor your exercise, making sure that you complete your reps and sets correctly – improving…

ANYONE hoping for a quiet doze during John Ratey’s speech would have been disappointed. Addressing 1100 of the world’s leading educators, he invited them to join him in a spot…

If you have a virtual patient you can select the treatment with the highest cure rate (Image: Tommy Parker) A medically accurate digital double will allow doctors to diagnose complex…

Weight tells you far less about a person’s health than you might think (Image: Richard I’Anson/Getty) Can you be fat and fit? Everything we think we know about obesity may…

(Image: CHI-Photo/Tom Parker/Rex) When easy-to-apply topical testosterone treatments such as skin patches and gels began hitting the market in the early 2000s, testosterone took on a whole new persona as…

When it comes to evolution, there is no such thing as perfection. Even in the simple, unchanging environment of a laboratory flask, bacteria never stop making small tweaks to improve…

GIVEN my predilection for peanut butter and ice cream, the offer of a scan to measure my body fat wouldn’t normally fill me with excitement. But this is no ordinary…

Like many people, you may have limited access to gyms and not many options for workouts with partners unless you’re training with someone in your household. However, the outdoors has…

When we are asked to reflect on or identify what “health” is or what it means to “be healthy,” that definition often involves body weight, body mass index (BMI), exercise…