Diseases
Your Alzheimer’s blood test could be wrong: Here’s what scientists found
Current blood tests can light up for the wrong reasons, and researchers say one extra step may finally close that gap.
Diseases
Taking blood pressure pills? This common mistake could cost you the benefits
The pills do their job, but a very ordinary habit slowly chips away at the protection they offer.
Diseases
What the color of your stool can reveal about your liver and gut health
The color your body produces every day carries quiet clues about your liver, gallbladder and gut, but only some shifts are urgent.
Diseases
Breast cancer changes lives forever: Here is the expert’s most important advice
Despite widespread awareness of breast cancer, many patients continue to face challenges both during and after treatment.According to...
Diseases
New research reveals who may benefit from aspirin against dementia
Your genes may determine whether the pill helps or hurts, and the gap between the two outcomes is surprisingly wide.
Diseases
Your Alzheimer’s blood test could be wrong: Here’s what scientists found
Current blood tests can light up for the wrong reasons, and researchers say one extra step may finally close that gap.
Diseases
Taking blood pressure pills? This common mistake could cost you the benefits
The pills do their job, but a very ordinary habit slowly chips away at the protection they offer.
Diseases
What the color of your stool can reveal about your liver and gut health
The color your body produces every day carries quiet clues about your liver, gallbladder and gut, but only some shifts are urgent.
Diseases
Breast cancer changes lives forever: Here is the expert’s most important advice
Despite widespread awareness of breast cancer, many patients continue to face challenges both during and after treatment.According to...
Scientists may have found why statins cause muscle pain, and how to prevent it
A McMaster study identifies the metabolic-immune loop behind statin myopathy, and how to block it.
A pig kidney kept him alive for 271 days – now he has a human one
A patient's 271 days on a genetically modified pig kidney is the longest yet documented.
The immune cell that may explain why some people live past 110
A new study points to a rare killer immune cell that surges with extreme age.
Why autism diagnoses in girls are rising 19% a year – and what took so long
A new US study points to what is really driving the recent rise in diagnoses.
Weight-loss drugs may slow cancer from spreading in the body, large data shows
Data from more than 12,000 cancer patients points to a new benefit of GLP-1 drugs.
A pancreatic cancer pill nearly doubled survival in trials. Its price: $480,000 a year
The FDA cleared Rasonque last week. Two pills a day carry a list price of $39,800 a month.