There are many approaches to treating cancer. Which ones work best is determined on an individual basis and informed by…
Not knowing whether their children will eat the healthy food put on their plates, parents may prepare a less healthy dish…
Medicare covers an annual well-check visit that could potentially identify cognitive issues, but only about half of beneficiaries…
Typically, cataract surgeries are painless and significantly restore vision.
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The rate of injury for single-sport adolescents is far higher than for other kids who play a variety of sports.
Since nutrition standards were strengthened in 2010, eating at school provides many students better diet quality compared…
An anthropologist who wrote a book exploring meth’s impact on rural communities explains what drove the epidemic and how…
Governments can do more to protect patients at for-profit nursing homes. A behavioral scientist who studies nursing homes…
As you get older, you’re at higher risk of severe infection and your immunity declines faster after vaccination.
Local governments are increasingly buying – and forgiving – their residents’ medical debt.
People often think of leprosy as a bygone disease, relevant primarily in biblical times. But in fact, it is still present…
Salt is an essential nutrient that has helped civilizations flavor and preserve their foods for millennia. Too much dietary…
Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position…
I’m a scholar, not an activist or an advocate. But now one of the most intimate, personal events of our lives had been…
Once available, Opill will be the most effective form of nonprescription birth control on the market. But you should still…
An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
Although the US banned lead-based paint in 1978, homes built before then commonly contain lead paint.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed tax credit is part of a trend toward public support for family caregiving.
Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization…