Are you like me, a member of a rotten club neither of us wants to be in? That is the chronic disease club — those of us who have some kind of underlying illness that, while it might vary in its ...

People often let chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes go for a long time without treatment. Here’s why ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent and was ...

A zero calcium score with high cholesterol may mean a person is at a lower risk of coronary heart disease. It means imaging does not show a buildup of calcified plaque in the heart’s blood vessels.

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life.

By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic as the first GLP-1 treatment option for people with type 2 ...