At least four NBA players who have recovered from COVID-19 plan to donate blood for an experimental treatment that could help high-risk patients overcome the virus.

Most similar research focused on one or two subjects; this paper looked at many more, including Eliud Kipchoge.

Blood plasma from recovered patients is a century-old treatment in medicine, and physicians hope it may provide a stopgap treatment before drugs or a vaccine are developed.

In this overview, we summarize the findings of the literature with regards to physiology and pathophysiology of ultra-marathon running. The number of ultra-m...

Background COVID-19 disease, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has spread globally, and no proven treatments are available. Convalescent plasma therapy has been...

There is scientific and legal controversy about recent technological advances in performance running shoes that reduce the energetic cost of running and may provide a distinct competitive advantage....

Convalescent plasma – a once-celebrated treatment for Covid-19 that has largely fallen out of favor – does work well for people who are immune-compromised, according to a study published Thursday.

Precision medicine has had minuscule effects on public health while the costs are astronomical. Is it really the best approach for improving health?

Endurance exercise training studies frequently show modest changes in VO2max with training and very limited responses in some subjects. By contrast, studies using interval training (IT) or combined...

Background Since December 2019, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic, causing mass morbidity and mortality. Prior studies in other respiratory infections suggest that...

Leaders of prestigious institutions who can’t say whether advocating “the genocide of Jews” is allowed on campus seem to have a basic literacy problem with free speech.

Six hundred severely ill Covid-19 patients have received blood plasma from recovered patients in a study researchers hope sheds light on whether the experimental therapy improves health outcomes.

I’ve done it. After years of biohacking and tweaking, I have become… optimal. Body fat percentage, optimal. Triglycerides, optimal. Dietary fiber, ...

Cycling Grand Tours are arguably the epitome of strenuous endurance exercise, and they have been reported to represent the ceiling of sustained energy expenditure for humans. It remains unknown,...

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To determine the effect of COVID-19 convalescent plasma on mortality, we aggregated patient outcome data from randomized clinical trials, matched control, and case-series studies. Fixed-effects...

A Mayo doctor and human performance expert extracts universal lessons from observing the world's top athletes.

In 1991, Michael Joyner published the first scientific paper on how fast a person could run a marathon. 25 years ago he wrote 1:57:58 was possible and explains how and why he's sticking with that...

The Super Bowl champ’s diet is healthy — just not for the reasons he claims.

If the practice stopped, top-level women’s sport as we know it might cease to exist.

Scientists searching for a medicine to treat patients with COVID-19 are looking for it in the blood of people who have already survived the disease.

The connections between genes and disease remain murky.

This randomized trial compares the effects of convalescent plasma therapy with standard care vs standard care alone on time to clinical improvement among patients with severe or life-threatening...