Adult Health

Stethoscope on an old book of medicine

The importance of knowing your family health history

Telemedicine can reduce wait times for highly-sought dermatology visits

Dermatologist Consult Telehealth

Well City Challenge seeks innovative ideas to improve millennial health

Well City Challenge

COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time, not just over a lifetime

Obesity COVID-19 risk

Social isolation has many health risks – for women, they include hypertension

Social isolation risks

Colorectal cancer screenings should begin earlier, new guidelines state

Colorectal cancer screening

Nearly one in three millennials now suffer from mental health conditions, according to study

millennials mental health COVID-19

College students are drinking less alcohol, but smoking more weed

Young adults drinking less

Is early physical therapy better for lower back pain? The answer is complicated

Physical Therapy Back Pain

Adults also susceptible to serious inflammatory syndrome after COVID-19

MIS-A COVID-19 condition

Lesbian, gay and bisexual people may be more prone to migraines

LGB migraine risk

Long naps may be bad for your heart, study finds

Napping heart disease

Warning signs may appear in the weeks before sudden cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest warning signs

How to soothe acne and breakouts caused by wearing a face mask all day

Face mask on blue background

Yoga may help lessen symptoms of atrial fibrillation, like lowering high blood pressure, study says

Yoga atrial fibrillation

Discussing risky sex could cut STI rates significantly, new U.S. guidelines say

Counseling for STIs

People with atrial fibrillation are living longer – but early detection still crucial

atrial fibrillation

Dual surgery boosts heart transplant chances for patients with obesity

Obesity heart transplant eligibility

Obesity reduces blood flow to the brain, increasing risk to Alzheimer's disease

Brain Scans Obesity

Cancer diagnoses have plummeted amid the COVID-19 pandemic – and doctors are worried

Cancer diagnoses COVID-19

Cinnamon supplements may slow advancement of type 2 diabetes

Cinnamon supplement type 2 diabetes

Underlying medical conditions put half of U.S. adults at risk of severe COVID-19

adults covid 19 risk.jpg

Colorectal cancer risk factors increasing among millennials

colorectal cancer risk factors

Stress relief a 'forgotten component' of managing type 2 diabetes

Stress and blood glucose control in type 2 diabetes

Not getting enough REM sleep may shorten your life

REM sleep mortality rate

Lifetime discrimination may increase hypertension risk among Black people, study finds

Discrimination increases hypertension risk

U.S. facing a growing physician shortage and COVID-19 may be making it worse

U.S. physician shortage

Metabolic syndrome increasing among millennials at 'alarming' rate

Signs of Metabolic Syndrome

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