Background: Hypertension-related chronic kidney disease (HT-CKD) represents a global health threat exacerbated by modifiable metabolic risks. Elevated body mass index (BMI) and low physical activity ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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Brown University Police Chief Rodney Chatman is on leave effective immediately, President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 wrote in a Monday email to the Brown community. Her message also outlined three ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has ...

Pumping iron isn’t the only way to pump the brakes on age-related muscle loss. While weight training has long been lauded as the key to building and maintaining muscle mass, experts say there are ...

The suspect in the Dec. 13 mass shooting on the campus of Brown University was found dead by suicide Thursday night in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, authorities said. He has been identified ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for understanding the evolution of bipedalism—focusing mainly on muscle insertion sites.

Background: High body mass index (HBMI) and high fasting plasma glucose (HFPG), two key metabolic risk factors, are strongly associated with colorectal cancer (CRC). However, systematic quantification ...