Slow breathing and cold plunges promise calm. But real vagus nerve treatments are more complex and still under study.

Researchers have identified a bone-driven signaling pathway that may explain how spinal degeneration leads to chronic pain.

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For years, families assumed that if a loved one lived in a nursing home, someone qualified was always watching. Not just anyone, either — a registered nurse. Someone trained to recognize a change in ...

The Department of Education under the Trump administration is restructuring federal student loans and capping the amount graduate students can borrow. Graduate students in programs classified as ...

“I don’t know why we would take this away,” said the president of one of several organizations to speak out about the change Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Just days after the release of her comeback single “Mature,” Hilary Duff has announced plans for an intimate series of shows in North America and England that will mark her first live performances in ...

Students practice with a mannequin simulating a patient at the Mt. San Antonio College campus in California. The shortage of clinical placements for nursing students has led some educators to argue ...

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Once dismissed as “junk,” a group of RNA molecules has been found to help regrow damaged nerves in mice in new research. The discovery could unlock new ways to treat nerve injuries and even restore ...

Medical equipment manufacturer Cranial Technologies is moving into Monadnock Development’s newly built headquarters building in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Cranial, a non-surgical provider for the treatment of ...