Although most Americans believe dietary supplements are safe, these products often make health claims that are unproven or downright false.
What you don’t do: Don’t shout at them, don’t put things in their mouth and don’t let them get near things that are sharp or hard in case of a fall.
People who regularly engage in significant amounts of exercise, as endurance athletes do, may develop enlarged hearts. While athletic heart is adapted for performance, it can be cause for concern.
An elite athlete’s metabolism mostly looks different from a patient with COVID-19 − but their occasional similarities can reveal important insights into health and disease.
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Alcohol is responsible for more deaths than overdoses from opioids and all other substances combined, yet less than 10% of people with alcohol use disorder receive treatment.
Pets often become an integral part of the family system, and some people say their bond to their pet is akin to that of a human child.
Future space missions will fly farther and longer than ever before – which means crew members may need more involved medical care in space.
Even if you’re healthy and fit, you still need vaccines to protect yourself from severe disease.
A growing body of research points to links between social media use and mental health harms, but establishing clear cause and effect is difficult.
A pain management specialist explains some of the new developments in pain treatment and why there’s hope for patients with chronic pain.
Cerebrospinal fluid can sometimes leak or collect in the brain without an identifiable cause, leading to symptoms that can be difficult to diagnose.
Most people who get infected with West Nile virus have mild symptoms, but in certain cases the illness can become serious or even deadly.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, or EMDR, can help patients process painful memories and reduce anxiety and depression stemming from those events.
Long before the pandemic, health care workers were experiencing high levels of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, all of which contribute to reduced quality of care for patients.
The H5N1 virus has infected about 900 people since 2003, and more than half of them died. But so far there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
A professor of psychiatry unpacks what to consider if you’re looking for help with physical or mental health and are considering using coaching services.
Among those developing the brain swelling known as encephalitis, approximately one-third will die, with the rest likely to experience neurological problems.
Cardiovascular disease develops and presents differently in women and men. But medical guidelines are often based on studies that excluded women.
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