Health officials in the Florida Keys have issued a dengue fever alert after two confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne disease were reported there. In the alert, issued this week by the Monroe County Department of Health, officials...

Weight gain is a common side effect of antidepressants, but some types cause people to pack on pounds more than others, a new study says. Bupropion users are 15% to 20% less likely to gain a significant...

Screening for chronic illnesses like diabetes or fatty liver disease could one day be as simple as checking the temperature of your nose, eyes or cheeks. The temperature of different parts of the face are associated with...

A 30-minute sauna or warm bubble bath every day might help women of a certain age fend off unwanted weight gain. That’s the promising takeaway from a study in mice that shows the potential of heat treatments...

Your children’s never-ending colds and sniffles may have protected them from the worst effects of COVID-19, new research suggests. Throughout the pandemic, it was clear that the SARS-CoV-2 virus tends to cause less severe symptoms in children...

The Mediterranean diet can help cancer survivors maintain their heart health and live longer, a new study says. Cancer patients whose eating patterns stuck closely to the Mediterranean diet tended to live longer and have a reduced...

Opioid addiction often starts with a prescription for post-surgery pain relief, and two new studies identify a handful of procedures that account for large shares of those prescriptions. The findings were published recently in two major medical...

A new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday. In clinical trials, donanemab (Kisunla) modestly slowed the pace of thinking declines among patients in the early stages of...

U.S. health officials announced Tuesday that the federal government will pay Moderna $176 million to speed development of a pandemic flu vaccine based on mRNA technology. Such a vaccine could be used to treat bird flu in...

In a case that will test the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authority to approve or reject new vaping products, the U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it will weigh whether the agency was legally allowed to ban...