A team of researchers has developed a genetic risk score for six common diseases, which could assist doctors and patients when making medical decisions.…
A new study finds that women who had experienced infertility had a 16 percent increased risk of heart failure compared with women who did…
Inside brain cells, errors in DNA can accumulate as we age. But in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, these errors — known as somatic mutations…
A recent CBS News/YouGov survey found that two-thirds of Americans want recreational marijuana use to be legal. Nearly 70 percent of states allow the…
Home from school and separated from peers during crucial developmental phases, young children and adolescents were clearly among the people most negatively impacted, in…
As female representation rose dramatically in U.S. medical schools, the number of Black men in academic medicine stagnated or decreased, according to a special…
When you think about progressive brain disorders that cause dementia, you usually think of memory problems. But sometimes language problems — also known as…
The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age. —Lewis Mumford, 1934 Forget long, languid summer evenings —…
People who eat two or more servings of avocado each week may lower their risk of cardiovascular disease compared to people who rarely eat…