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W. Larry Kenney is a professor of physiology, kinesiology and human performance at Penn State; Daniel Vecellio is a geographer-climatologist and postdoctoral fellow at Penn State; Rachel Cottle is a Ph.D. candidate in exercise physiology at Penn State; and S. Tony Wolf is a postdoctoral researcher in kinesiology at Penn State. Extreme heat has been breaking records across Europe, Asia and …

You’ve heard of the winter blues, but what about the summer blues? While the summertime is usually associated with vacations and fun, the warmer season can bring on its own set of stresses, according to experts. ‘When people typically think of seasonal affective disorder, they’re thinking of the winter blues …

Hospitals reported a “large spike” of children with brain infections this past winter to the highest levels seen in several years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, but cases still remain rare overall.  The new findings were published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, updating …

Researchers may have discovered what makes hair turn gray, prompting hope that a treatment for preventing or reversing the process could be on the horizon. Published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the study shows certain stem cells, which have the ability to move between growth compartments in hair follicles, get stuck …