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So how obsessed are we with bums? In Brazil, hundreds of women vie for having the best pair of butts in a pageant aptly called Miss Bum Bum. It’s a yearly event that always attracts a lot of media attention ...

Doctor says child was born with a lump that eventually covered the right side of his body from his armpit to his hip

The body contains 10 times more bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms than human cells. Most of these species are harmless--although they can still cause illness if they wind up in the wrong place

Pathologist said woman had severe hypokalemia - low potassium in the body - probably from drinking too much

Pathologist said woman had severe hypokalemia - low potassium in the body - probably from drinking too much

A little more than three years ago a medical team from Berlin published the results of a unique experiment that astonished HIV researchers. The German group had taken bone marrow--the source of the body’s immune cells--from an anonymous donor whose genetic inheritance made him or her naturally resistant to HIV.

There is nothing about soda that's good for you, and these disturbing facts about what it does to your body (besides packing on the pounds) just might make you want cease consumption.

India’s leopards are dying at a rate of at least one per day, according to a report released this week by the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI).

Mild dehydration is defined as a 1.5 percent loss in normal water volume in the body. And two recent studies with men and women find that, beyond affecting your body, mild dehydration can impact your mood.

There are many different factors which go into whether animals (or humans) develop obesity and diabetes.

You can tell a lot about a person from their body. And I don’t just mean how many hours they spend at the gym, or how easy it is for them to sweet-talk their way out of speeding tickets. For the past several decades researchers have been studying the ways in which the body reveals properties of the mind

Image: Illustration by John Hendrix The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new drug that tackles the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF) in 4 percent of patients . The drug, called ivacaftor (brand name Kalydeco), acts by helping the body make better use of a protein that works incorrectly in cystic fibrosis patients.

Lessons from my diet: Use these 5 steps to move your company past a plateau and on to the next 'set point.' I dropped about 20 pounds last spring–and in doing so, changed my weight "set point" to 175 pounds. That means that my body–metabolism, habits and choices–adjusted to a "new normal" that was easier to maintain than it had been to attain. Like the body's systems, businesses also develop along a series of set points and set point changes.

Haywire life causing your body to go haywire? Experts share simple tips to de-stress

An uncharted trawl through thousands of small molecules involved in the body's metabolism may have uncovered a potential route to treating pain caused by nerve damage.