If you've ever been around women, you've probably heard them exclaim, "Oh! My back!" while grabbing their backs (which they just injured). Science has, at long last, explained why women are always like, "Oh! My back!"

A new study in the journal Frontiers in Psychology finds that adjunct professors in U.S. colleges are at unique risk of "depression, anxiety, and stress" due to their jobs. Why might that be?

If you are a human who has successfully survived past the age of 30, chances are you've experienced lower back pain, a condition brought on by excessive sitting, standing, inactivity, or moving. A new study says: there is no relief.

In the past 20 years, the caloric intakes of Americans and the composition of their diets have not significantly changed. But obesity rates have steadily risen. Why? Probably because motherfuckers are not working out.

From Bloomberg today: "About 600,000 Chinese a year die from working too hard, according to the China Youth Daily. China Radio International in April reported a toll of 1,600 every day." What?? Chinese readers, please weigh in below on the veracity of this, if you are still alive.

A decade ago, everyone was worried about all our kids being on antidepressants. What about the side effects. So the FDA put big warnings on antidepressants about possible increased suicide risks for young people. How did that turn out?

Detroit, a crumbling metropolitan area with America's highest concentration of ruin porn and indignant local journalists, can add another notch to its Bedpost of Horrors: its infant mortality rate is disgraceful.

Contractions of measles—potentially deadly, eminently preventable measles—are increasing logarithmically in the United States, and they are at a 20-year high.

The latest theory about what prompted UCSB shooter Elliot Rodger to snap and murder people: his "addiction" to the weightlifting supplement creatine. This can be properly understood as "complete fiction." (Update: and as complete trolling.)

Stop obsessing over what that weird oozing bump on your arm might be and go see a doctor already because that Wikipedia page you have open is probably wrong and is only going to make your crazier. Also, stop touching it.

The first U.S. case of Middle East respiratory syndrome—MERS—has been confirmed in Indiana. The virus has killed 102 of the 339 people who have contracted it in Saudi Arabia, where the bulk of cases have been reported.

You might think that the U.S. government's small step towards a national health care system would somehow help bring the cost of prescription drugs down to reasonable levels. You could not be more wrong! You idiot!

The percentage of mothers who stay at home has risen sharply in the past 15 years. You might think this would make the lives of fathers easier. Hell no. Everyone is miserable.

After more than a decade of foreign wars, many of America's military veterans deal with combat injuries and PTSD. But an even larger problem is the mass of soldiers who've come home with devastating non-combat injuries.

A 92-pound Yale history major says the university's health center told her she needed to gain weight or take a leave of absence from school. She's spent the past 6 months trying to put on pounds for her weekly weigh-ins.

Dunkin' Donuts has some company: On Friday, the New York Department of Health temporarily shut down Dominique Ansel Bakery, maker of the famous Cronut, because of a "severe mouse infestation."

Some food—cake, pie, pizza, nachos—tastes great. Some food—wheatgrass, chia seeds, kale—is healthy. But what one food tastes the best while still being healthy?

Americans do not remember anything from chemistry or biology class, but they will damn sure buy anything that contains "protein," because I think it gives you muscles? Sadly, it appears that high protein diets may also cause you to die.

One of America's favorite foods (after partially hydrogenated soybean oil) is sugar, which is a poison to the human body. You will all be pained to hear that the World Health Organization has just halved the acceptable amount of sugar in your diet.

Last week, the Washington Post published one doctor's remembrance of the emotions associated with treating a morbidly obese patient. The doctor was condemned for purported "fat-shaming." Is your doctor really fat-shaming you?