The Link Between Coffee and the Health of Your Liver

  Good news, coffee lovers: Now there’s even more reason to enjoy your morning brew.

US Latinos are more educated and better off than people realize

  Ethnicity in the US is notoriously difficult for demographers to classify, and it’s getting tougher as the country becomes more diverse.

How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body

  The benefits of mindfulness meditation, increasingly popular in recent years, are supposed to be many: reduced stress and risk for various diseases, improved well-being, a rewired brain. But the experimental bases to support these claims have been few. Supporters of the practice have relied on very small samples of unrepresentative subjects, like isolated Buddhist monks who spend hours meditating every day, or on studies that generally were not randomized and did not include placebo¬ control groups.

This fish may hold the secret to prevent Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya

  After reports of Zika being declared a global public health emergency, cases with the possible association of microcephaly in newborns rising in Brazil and the linked with Guillain-Barré, a syndrome that causes muscle weakness or paralysis; the mosquito-borne virus has everyone alarm and asking the...

Immigrant activist makes history by becoming New York’s first undocumented lawyer

  After a four-year battle, undocumented immigrant activist, Cesar Vargas, was finally sworn in to practice law Wednesday at the Appellate Division, Second Department, courthouse in Brooklyn, "it was an amazing moment, It felt like the day was never going to come,” Vargas said.“I must admit,...

Carrots really are good for your eyes, study finds

  Your parents may have told you, “Eat your carrots, they’re good for your eyes,” and a new study suggests they were on to something. Pigments called carotenoids — which give red or orange hues to carrots, sweet potatoes and orange peppers, or deep greens to produce...