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Input from readers will help shape our coverage of conditions like diabetes and heart disease, along with the physical, emotional and financial toll they can take.
Input from readers will help shape our coverage of conditions like diabetes and heart disease, along with the physical, emotional and financial toll they can take.
It’s critical for preventing heart disease and other serious health problems.
How to stroll with confidence in icy weather.
Experts say it’s crucial to listen to your body to avoid injury. But what does that really mean, and how can you put it into practice?
Syphilis, once nearly eliminated in the United States, continues to resurge, reaching the highest rate of new infections recorded since 1950, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. More than 207,000 cases were diagnosed in 2022, the last year for which data are available. That represents an 80 percent increase since 2018,…
Scientists are just beginning to explore the relationship between drinking and the good and bad bacteria in your gut.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals of Boston announced Tuesday that it had developed an experimental drug that relieves moderate to severe pain, blocking pain signals before they can get to the brain. It works only on peripheral nerves — those outside the brain and the spinal cord — making it unlike opioids. Vertex says its new drug is…
The News A highly lethal form of bird flu has been detected in Antarctic penguins for the first time. The virus, which is known as H5N1, was confirmed in a few gentoo penguins that were found dead in the Falkland Islands, according to the British territory’s Department of Agriculture. Another few dozen gentoo penguins were…
It can be a helpful barrier between your lips and the cold wind, but not all products are created equal.
Canada is postponing a plan to offer people suffering from mental illnesses the option of a medically assisted death, two cabinet ministers said on Monday. The announcement by Mark Holland, the health minister, and Arif Virani, the justice minister, came after a special parliamentary committee looking into the plan concluded that there are not enough…