We learned recently that the Food and Drug Administration approved a new high-tech device for weight loss. While this column isn’t really about the technological particulars, we should at least note ...

Capgras syndrome is a rare condition in which someone believes that their loved ones or others they know have been replaced with doubles or imposters. The belief is so real that nothing can correct ...

The 26 million Americans who have diabetes and 79 million more with prediabetes surely have heard from their doctors that losing weight and exercising more can dramatically change their health. In ...

Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life expectancy also brings an increase in the number of diseases, ...

Recent tests lend some credence to the self-proclaimed sufferers of Morgellons disease, who complain of symptoms that are almost indentical to ones commonly imagined by paranoiacs and schizophrenics, ...

A shipping clerk begins to think he’s been given a secret task of geopolitical significance. A government employee believes that descriptions of a certain actor in the newspaper are actually about her ...

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Delusions are fixed, false beliefs held with conviction that persists despite evidence to the contrary. They occur as part of various conditions such as severe depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar ...

Ryan Reynolds and his mother, Tammy. Reynolds' father died of Parkinson’s disease at the age of 74, and now Reynolds and his mother are part of a campaign sponsored by Acadia Pharmaceuticals to ...