Society is full of messages telling us what our bodies should look like—and (spoiler alert!) they are not only wrong but can cause body dissatisfaction and harm our mental health.

Asthma is a long-term condition, but there are ways to keep it under good control so that you feel your best.

Four years after body-checking was introduced, have injury rates in Swedish women’s ice hockey changed? Yes, markedly. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now been able to show that, in the short term, the number of insurance claims almost doubled.

What does it mean when a young person seems to know the difference between right and wrong but still repeatedly crosses the line? For professionals working with adolescents who display problematic or transgressive behavior, such contradictions can be difficult to understand and assess. New research from the University of Amsterdam suggests that one reason may be that conscience is not a single, fixed characteristic. Instead, it is a dynamic system in which several psychological abilities need to work together. Psychologist Julia Tiemersma will defend her dissertation on the topic Sept. 11 at the UvA.

Menopause is frequently missing from women’s electronic health records, according to a University of Colorado Anschutz study of nearly 396,000 women participating in the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program.