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The new guidelines present a newly aggressive playbook for managing cholesterol that emphasizes earlier screenings and lower-then-ever targets for “bad” LDL cholesterol.

No single habit can prevent cancer, but if oncologists had to choose one, they’d recommend a morning walk. Learn why.

A medication used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis may help people with alopecia areata regrow up to 80% of hair on their scalp within 24 weeks of use, a recent study suggests.

Both too little and too much sleep may be linked to faster aging throughout the body. Researchers analyzing 23 biological aging clocks found the lowest aging levels among people sleeping about 6.4 to 7.8 hours per day. Short or long sleep was also associated …

A Golden Retriever puppy turns her first vet visit into a sweet cuddle session, winning hearts with her calm and trusting reaction.

Could a portion of your ear be a window to your heart?

Visitors to the national park face threats including bison, grizzly bears and scalding thermal pools. For one tourist, the gravest danger was a dying bat

You can give part of your liver away while you’re still alive, but we need better medical infrastructure if we’re going to make the most of them.

Cases are doubling every 20 years, but the race is on – using new and old science – to create a vaccine

These warning signs — some surprising — indicate you might need urgent attention.

More screen time during infancy and around the start of school was linked to poorer academic performance and weaker working memory years later. The findings suggest that early childhood may contain particularly sensitive windows when screen habits can have lo…

Researchers have linked heavy TV viewing with several potential health consequences.

A decades-old wartime policy gave researchers a rare chance to examine how what we eat early in life may shape the brain decades later.

Researchers report an association between higher daily soluble fiber intake and reduced accumulation of visceral belly fat, a distinction that matters becaus...

With kids returning to school amid the worst year of measles in more than 30 years and as a record number of children report exemptions from vaccines, the likelihood that the spread of measles will worsen is all but certain according to public health leaders.…

Gen Z knows skipping sun protection to get a tan is risky. Some are doing it anyway.

Approximately 3 million people in the United States are living with a condition called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF. The number of people with this form of heart failure, which is more common in women than men, is growing alongside…

Health workers are continuing to treat patients and train caregivers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record continues.

A new study finds that an all-out sprint may have unique benefits when it comes to the proteins and tiny molecules in your bloodstream.

Ccare Uganda forum warns malaria is growing harder to detect and treat PML Daily

Being engaged in a desk job brings hidden risk to the spine, if one forgets to correct their posture and move around once in a while, shared Dr Pushkar Chawla. | Health