Parents and pediatricians should talk to children about the dangers of alcohol use before they are teens, starting at age 9, according to a clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
The CDC has issued a report that estimates the average "heart age" of men and women in every state, based on risk factors like high blood pressure, obesity, and whether they smoke or have diabetes. On average for men, the predicted heart age was nearly 8 years…
Doctors and patients of knee and hip replacement surgeries should pay more attention to another possible short-term risk after the procedure: heart attack.
A teen boy has died in Texas from a rare brain-eating infection of amoebas. This type of amoeba is found commonly in warm freshwater, but infections are rare.
An effort to reproduce 100 studies that had been published in three leading psychology journals found that more than half of the findings did not hold up when retested.
Oliver Sacks had two careers, one as a caring neurologist and the other as an empathetic writer who described the strange turns that the human brain can take using his patients’ disorders as launch pads for discussions of being conscious and being human.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning on Friday, August 28, against a class of diabetes drugs that can possibly cause severe and debilitating joint pain.
