He or she who eats the most chocolate wins! It's not exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to hear from the British Medical Journal, but a recent longitudinal study suggests health benefits that would make Willy Wonka’s day. There must be a catch!

If you're male, and you have an autumn birthday, you may be a little more likely to smoke. Why? And why are young people born between April and July more susceptible to Type 1 diabetes? Of course, the answer isn't astrology... but it might be meteorology!

It's an age-old question: why does laughter feel so good? We are now one step closer to an answer, thanks to a recent Oxford study. It turns out that the physical act of laughing leads to an increase in endorphins, which are feel-good chemicals in our brains.

If kids had their way, many would spend a lot of their young lives in front of a TV or a computer. Fortunately, moms aren't usually shy about shooing them outside to play. Do parents instinctively know the value of playtime with peers? Or do they just want some peace and quiet? Either way, neuroscience is now proving what smart parents have known all along: time spent socially engaged and physically active is good for our bodies.

Here’s a health tip you’ll go out of your way to follow. Find out why watching a musical comedy may be as good for you as dropping 10 pounds.

Some lucky people have the ability to fall asleep instantly, no tossing and turning required. This post is for the rest of us! The New York Times published a list of sleep tips earlier this week, which you should definitely check out here. We asked seven ZocDoc employees for more sleep tips that didn’t make the Times article, and then rated them on a 1-10 scale based on how closely they matched recommendations from the UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).

If you needed another reason to watch the time your kids spend with their gadgets, a new NYU study has your back.

Barbershops are famous for serving as centers of community and culture among African-American men. So why shouldn't they serve as centers of public health, too? That's the question asked by researchers at the Cedar-Sinai Health Institute in California, and the answer is promising.

These days, cancer is common - nearly every American's life has been touched in some way by cancer. But it may not have always been so. According to a study in Nature, the disease may be a consequence of the modern condition.

Love hurts, but it's also a mild analgesic. According to a new study, lovebirds just don't feel pain like the rest of us.