Latest articles by Anirban Mukhopadhyay
A man's muscles looked strangely deformed. Doctors found they were leaking calcium into his blood.
A man showed up to the hospital with vomiting, weakness, failing kidneys and sky-high calcium. The culprit was a muscle-enhancing oil he injected into his chest and arms years ago.
Brain benefits of exercise come from the bloodstream — and they may be transferrable, mouse study finds
Exercise strengthens both the body and the mind, and researchers are uncovering the molecular messengers that make the connection. The messengers can also be transferred from an active mouse to a sedentary one.
REM sleep may reshape what we remember
Researchers trace how different sleep stages may fine-tune what we remember, trading specifics for more general knowledge.
A woman got unusual bruising from a massage gun. It turned out she had scurvy.
A woman bruising her leg with a massage gun set off a medical odyssey that revealed scurvy, a disease seen fairly rarely in modern America.
Stars live longer, stranger lives after nearly being swallowed by a black hole
A new study shows survivor stars can live billions of years longer than normal, carrying chemical fingerprints of their violent encounters with the Milky Way's black hole.
