You reach a major life milestone when you enter your forties, a critical age when certain health screenings become essential.

That’s how I ended up in a phlebotomist’s chair at Quest Diagnostics at 7 a.m. on a recent Saturday, looking hard in the ...

Cholesterol is known as 'the silent killer' because it has no symptoms, but can lead to heart attacks and stroke - but most ...

Sticking to a very simple morning routine could be Beyonce's secret to keeping her figure in shape all these years ...

Women who have had strokes may be more likely than men to skip doses of medications that could help prevent a second stroke, ...

Scientists crunched the numbers to come up with the single best predictor of how long you’ll live—and arrived at a ...

Women who have had a stroke may be less likely than men to take medications to prevent a second stroke, with Mexican American women reporting the highest rates of nonadherence, according to new ...

Soluble fiber—found in beans, fruits, vegetables, and certain grains—can help lower cholesterol, stabilize blood sugar, and ...

More evidence is the only way to end the debate once and for all. Watanabe and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins are now ...

Researchers from Switzerland have shown that patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) suffer poor sleep due to sleep fragmentation and wakefulness. Patients with ...

Some research associates sertraline (Zoloft) with higher levels of cholesterol. People may need to make lifestyle changes to ...

Researchers have linked a specific type of body fat to the abnormal proteins in the brain that are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease up to 20 years before the earliest symptoms of dementia appear, ...