Diseases
Foods to avoid if you take beta-blockers for your heart or blood pressure
Your coffee, a glass of juice or a nightly drink may quietly work against the pill.
Diseases
What should your triglyceride level be? The ranges that signal heart risk
The number sits on every lipid panel, but few readers know what it says about their heart.
Diseases
When rotten-egg gas won’t quit: what your gut may be trying to tell you
A persistent sulfur smell you can't blame on dinner may be a quiet signal from your microbiome.
Diseases
Only 1 in 7 online blood pressure images shows the right technique – are you measuring correctly?
Most home monitors work fine. The technique behind them, often learned from stock photos, does not.
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Alfalfa sprouts linked to E. coli and salmonella in 15 states – what to do if you have them
Federal health officials say two people caught both bugs at once.
Diseases
Foods to avoid if you take beta-blockers for your heart or blood pressure
Your coffee, a glass of juice or a nightly drink may quietly work against the pill.
Diseases
What should your triglyceride level be? The ranges that signal heart risk
The number sits on every lipid panel, but few readers know what it says about their heart.
Diseases
When rotten-egg gas won’t quit: what your gut may be trying to tell you
A persistent sulfur smell you can't blame on dinner may be a quiet signal from your microbiome.
Diseases
Only 1 in 7 online blood pressure images shows the right technique – are you measuring correctly?
Most home monitors work fine. The technique behind them, often learned from stock photos, does not.
Home blood pressure monitoring reduced heart attack risk by 34 percent
A major study shows that regular blood pressure monitoring can have a significant impact on health.
Some women with metastatic breast cancer may now have a chemo-free path forward
A four-drug targeted regimen held one hard-to-treat cancer subtype in check for close to two years.
Excess body weight may be behind 1 in 10 new cancer diagnoses in the US
A new JAMA review connects excess weight to about 10 percent of US cancer cases.
8 early warning signs of Crohn’s disease that are commonly dismissed
The gut symptoms are only half the picture, and the rest is easy to miss.
A common blood pressure drug may raise kidney risk by a third in type 2 diabetes
A large real-world study links a widely used class of blood pressure drugs to worse kidney outcomes.
8 warning signs of atrial fibrillation most people mistake for stress
A racing heart or unexplained fatigue may look like a bad week. It can also be your heart misfiring.