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Cardiologists reveal the evening habits they recommend replacing to improve blood pressure, alongside other strategies, to support heart health.

Your yearly visit should feel less like a clearance exam and more like a strategy session. Medicine has largely forgotten how to run one, writes Charlotte Grinberg.

A seventh person has died from the Legionnaires’ disease cluster that has terrified Upper East Side residents in recent weeks, The Post has learned.

The amino acid arginine helps keep the human body humming, most notably by synthesizing proteins that carry out a range of cellular processes. It's produced by our bodies and found in common high-protein foods. Low levels of arginine are associated with a num…

Maryland health officials are warning swimmers about the presence of flesh-eating bacteria in the Chesapeake Bay.

Social media influencers have joked about getting infected with cyclospora to lose weight.

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A central Pennsylvania veterinarian took to social media Thursday, warning the community about a rabid kitten. A confirmed case of rabies was detected down the road from Paws Animal Hospital, located at 1263 Hoff Road in Hanover, the…

They aren’t showering Zo with compliments.

A case of a rare but serious viral illness linked to mosquito bites has been confirmed in Oconee County, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.

Officials say the rare case likely stemmed from contact with a bat on an outdoor balcony.

Infections caused by vibrio vulnificus are contracted through eating raw seafood or swimming in contaminated water.

Ohio’s top doctor declared a measles outbreak Thursday, marking the state’s third measles outbreak this year.

Justin Vu was on a family trip to Oregon when he first began showing symptoms.

Justin Vu was on a family trip to Oregon when he first began showing symptoms.

Justin Vu was on a family trip to Oregon when he first began showing symptoms.

A new study from The Wistar Institute has uncovered an unexpected link between fructose—a common dietary sugar—and the spread of an aggressive form of ovarian cancer. Published in Nature Aging, the study found that cancer cells not killed by chemotherapy send…

Health officials confirmed a case of La Crosse encephalitis in a Westminster resident, prompting mosquito spraying within in the area.

A 4,000-year-old disease is making a comeback in at least one U.S. state, and officials say armadillos could be to blame.

What do you know about recent clinical findings of vitamin D? Test your knowledge with this short quiz.

Does creatine help with menopausal brain fog? Here's what a doctor says.

Each additional prescription medication was linked to a 7% increase in death risk among older adults, raising urgent questions about deprescribing.

Nature is investigating concerns surrounding a paper at the heart of a news story published last week on the death of a 6-year-old girl following a gene therapy treatment in China. The paper, publi…

X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) enables gene dosage compensation in XX eutherians. Long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) retrotransposons are unusually abundant on the human X chromosome and are hypothesized to facilitate XCI. Here, we used long-...

Lysosomal dysfunction is a well-recognized feature of aging. Here, we used a suite of tools for rapid lysosomal isolation to construct a multitissue atlas of the metabolite changes lysosomes undergo during aging. Aged lysosomes in brain, heart, muscle, ...