There’s some good news on the health front for Americans. Since 1969, deaths from heart attack and stroke, the leading causes of death in the United States, have declined 79%. Since 1991, cancer ...

Loneliness, a condition linked to serious mental and physical health risks, remains in the spotlight nearly two years after former U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy declared it a public health ...

The holiday season can exacerbate feelings of loneliness that are already on the rise in countries around the world.

While many consider this the most wonderful time of the year, it can also be particularly isolating for those short on family and friends. "People are barraged by media images of everybody having a ...

When you think about your health, you probably think about whether you've been getting enough exercise, what your diet looks like, or whether you remembered to take your medication this morning. But ...

On this Christmas Eve, there is a deep well of suffering in America. What we see on the surface is a country with a national emergency of opioid addiction, where loneliness is a greater threat to ...

Biosphere 2 was scientific research project anticipating space travel and interplanetary settlement. Constructed in the Arizona desert in the late 1980s, the closed domed habitat attempted to create ...

Not long after my father passed away in 2002, I crossed paths with a priest who would eventually become my spiritual adviser. At the time, I was working for the county government in Detroit. Just a ...