Powerful COVID vaccines could be setting people’s immune systems up to successfully fight off not just future COVID variants, but other types of coronaviruses as well, a new study shows. People repeatedly vaccinated for COVID — the...

Many kids can get an occasional upset tummy, but what if your child’s stomachaches are more persistent? Dr. David Ziring, associate director of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s in Los Angeles, offers...

Hip replacement is a major, arduous elective surgery, and rehabilitation afterwards takes time, according to an expert from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. It’ll also take coordinated planning between yourself, your care team and your family and...

Some folks like to count their daily steps, while others prefer exercising for a certain amount of time during a day or a week. Luckily, either approach boosts health, a new study finds. Exercise targets based on...

New, real-world research confirms that the blockbuster weight-loss drugs that millions of Americans have been taking to shed pounds can trigger stomach paralysis in some patients. “Although these drugs do work and should be used for the...

The nation’s top pediatrics group has reversed its decades-old position on HIV-positive mothers breastfeeding their infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics now says it’s generally safe for moms with HIV to breastfeed or provide breast milk to...

Fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other methods don’t boost the odds for tumor recurrence in young women who’ve survived breast cancer and carry the BRCA cancer genes, a reassuring, new report finds. The...

Many teens are spending their days buzzed on caffeine, with their parents mostly unaware of the potential risks, a new national poll says. A quarter of parents reported that caffeine is basically part of their teen’s daily...

MONDAY, May 20, 2024 — When a stroke hits, “time is brain,” doctors say, with neurons beginning to die off in minutes. Quickly figuring out which type of stroke a patient has been hit with is crucial....

Blood pressure medications appear to more than double the risk of life-threatening bone fractures among nursing home residents, a new study warns. The increased risk stems from the drugs’ tendency to impair balance, particularly when patients stand...