A spritz of the so-called “love hormone” might be the key to easing persistent feelings of loneliness. In a 2014 study, a team of European and Israeli researchers tested whether oxytocin ...

Steven Soderbergh never settles down. The director, who helped fuel the independent film revolution in the 1990s before ...

How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when they noticed their sunfish ...

But the complicated feelings of loneliness and isolation affect all ages. It can be especially hard for kids to understand once that feeling creeps in. "What an adult might refer to as feeling ...

The first reactions are in for The Monkey, a new horror movie from Longlegs director Osgood Perkins, and they're calling it ...

If the current narrative is to be believed, loneliness is the grim scourge of modern life along with obesity, smoking, booze, and even innocent hot dogs, which are now linked to dementia.

Roy Rochlin/Getty Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says loneliness can cause deep pain — and is a major health issue. Loneliness, Murthy, 47, said, is “consequential for our health ...

Evidence increasingly demonstrates that both social isolation and loneliness are linked to poorer health and an early death. Despite this evidence, however, the underlying mechanisms through which ...

It glows a bright neon green during surgery. “In layman’s terms, you’re trying to make sure you get the cancer, but preserve the tissue,” said Bill Peters, CEO of On Target. “During ...

The population here reflects the aging society outside, and the pervasive problem of loneliness that guards say is so acute for some elderly prisoners that they’d prefer to stay incarcerated.