Fruits and vegetables that are considered to be among the most healthy food options have also once again made a less prestigious list: Strawberries and spinach top the "Dirty Dozen" for containing the most pesticides.
Once considered eliminated in the U.S. because of wide vaccine availability, measles cases are climbing. By mid-March, the case count for 2024 was higher than last year's total.
An international team of researchers say a protein found in human sweat may help protect people from Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that affects nearly a half-million people every year in the U.S.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy on Friday for lowering the risk of stroke and heart attack in overweight or obese adults who do not have diabetes.
A Clearfield man was given a fatal cancer diagnosis nearly a year ago — though, he's been able to stave off death due to treatment for a rare disease discovered earlier by genetic testing.
Drinking two liters or more per week of artificially sweetened beverages raised the risk of an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation by 20% when compared to people who drank none, a new study found.
Ten thousand steps per day have long been known as the magic number needed to lower risk of disease and early death. What researchers didn't know was whether that amount could have the same effect even for people who are sedentary most of…
Novo Nordisk's widely used diabetes drug Ozempic delayed progression of chronic kidney disease in diabetes patients, a large late-stage study found, cutting the risk of major cardiac events and death by 24%.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, on average, women tend to live five to seven years longer than men because men have higher rates of cardiovascular disease.
Researchers are testing deep brain stimulation as a treatment for people with a severe form of depression. Doctors compare it to a pacemaker for the brain. It involves implanting electrodes in the brain.
A study of older adults in China offers a closer look at the dominolike sequence of brain changes that lead to Alzheimer's. Scientists don't know exactly how Alzheimer's forms but it quietly ravages the brain long before symptoms appear.
The latest update from Utah Department of Health shows a third child has succumbed to influenza during the current season. Health experts are raising concerns over the unusual patterns the state is seeing this year.
Ten people, including two in Utah, have been sickened by E. coli in a multistate outbreak linked to raw milk cheese, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a food safety alert on Friday.
The next time someone giving you a shot asks, "Which arm?" don't be cavalier. New research suggests the question may be more important than you think — at least if the vaccine calls for two doses.
The next time someone giving you a shot asks, "Which arm?" don't be cavalier. New research suggests the question may be more important than you think — at least if the vaccine calls for two doses.
The latest round of COVID-19 boosters is about 54% effective in preventing symptomatic infection in those with normal immune systems, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The longstanding problem of pulse oximeters providing less-accurate readings for people with dark skin tones got another look Friday from a panel of experts for the FDA.
Infectious syphilis cases in the U.S. rose by 9% in 2022. That's according to a new federal government report released Tuesday on sexually transmitted diseases in adults.
Researchers have discovered a network of lymphatic vessels at the back of the nose that help drain cerebral spinal fluid from the brain. The discovery could have implications for targeting neurodegenerative ills like Alzheimer's.
After the World Health Organization reported a 30-fold increase between 2022 and 2023, a measles outbreak in Europe has public health officials worried. And the United States is experiencing its own set of smaller outbreaks in multiple…
Testing a person's blood for a type of protein called phosphorylated tau, or p-tau, could be used to screen for Alzheimer's disease with "high accuracy," even before symptoms begin to show, a new study suggests.