A discussion about the risks, aesthetics, and reactions surrounding extreme body modifications.

A board-certified plastic surgeon analyzes the increasing trend of extreme body modifications, detailing the serious health complications, functional loss, and legal/ethical risks involved. Physical ...

Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Meta — the social media giant — will pay $1 billion and implement new child safety regulations on its platforms as part of a settlement with the state of Texas. A professor of ...

A vehicle modification that is perfectly acceptable on an American road may create a legal problem once you cross into Canada ...

For nearly 200 years, advancements in medicine, sanitation, nutrition, and healthcare have steadily increased human life expectancy. However, recent studies ...

Once we learn waists can be altered, it can be surprisingly easy to start questioning whether ours needs changing too.

A fifty year-old man was admitted through the emergency room with extensive dry ice injuries to his left leg. For two days his doctors tried to save the leg, but the damage was too extensive so event ...

Holly Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, breaks down how cells sense and respond to heat stress, how ...

A much higher number of elderly people than previously thought are at high risk of illness or death from extreme heat as temperatures climb under the effects of climate change, scientists have ...

Conor Benn's battle to make weight for his clash with Ryan Garcia has brought a controversial issue back into focus ...

Your body type influences your metabolism and health risks. Having an apple- or pear-shaped body can affect your risk of metabolic syndrome. Body types often change as you get older, lose muscle mass, ...