Health

The health advice that keeps you from getting sick might actually harm you once you're already ill. This counterintuitive medical reality has a new name: "Cuomo's paradox", coined by Professor Raphael Cuomo at UC San Diego School of Medicine after analyzing findings across numerous studies.... Read more

Media headlines, industry figures and research confirm what many parents suspect: marketing to children has not only grown in scale but also in sophistication.... Read more

Researchers at Kyushu University have demonstrated that yogurt intake increases the diversity of gut microbiota and alters its composition. Furthermore, bathing in chloride hot springs after yogurt intake was found to improve defecation status more than yogurt alone.... Read more

Authorities in Tennessee reported a rare and tragic death after a hiker was bitten by a rattlesnake.... Read more

Eating animal-sourced protein foods is not linked to a higher risk of death and may even offer protective benefits against cancer-related mortality, new research finds.... Read more

A large international study led by researchers at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, shows that major depressive disorder (MDD) not only increases risk for a wide range of diseases and social problems, but is also partly driven by factors such as loneliness, obesity, smoking, and chronic... Read more

For almost two decades, all New Zealanders had free access to one of the world's most trusted libraries on medical information.... Read more

People who drink less than the recommended daily fluid intake experience a greater stress hormone response, which is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and depression, according to a new study from scientists in Liverpool, U.K.... Read more

A new study has revealed that racialized and Indigenous communities across Europe, North America, and Central America face significantly higher rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and that gaps in health care data are making the problem worse.... Read more

The 2025 Canadian wildfire season is on track to be the country's second worst on record, burning more than 16.5 million acres and causing wildfire smoke to travel to the Midwest and Northeast United States. Though we may know the air quality is poor through monitoring and subsequent air quality... Read more

A new study by USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology researchers shows that Americans with less education are aging faster than their peers with more schooling, and the gap has grown over the last 30 years.... Read more

Research out of the University of New Hampshire shows that communities that were easier for people to lace up and get out for a walk during the COVID-19 pandemic also helped lower the impact of mental health issues, like stress and anxiety.... Read more

Brucellosis is a serious and often neglected disease endemic to many low- and middle-income countries around the world. Because it shares many of the same clinical symptoms as malaria—including fever and joint pain—it can be misdiagnosed.... Read more

Health experts across the country are issuing warnings about a surge in infections from a "flesh-eating" bacterium known as Vibrio vulnificus.... Read more

A resident of South Lake Tahoe, California, has been diagnosed with the plague, the state's first human plague infection since 2020.... Read more