Patients with diverticulitis often try to control the digestive condition by cutting nuts, seeds and popcorn out of their daily diet. But that’s not necessary, a new study has found. Nuts and seeds do not increase the...

Tiffiney Beard expected a rough road ahead after her April 2024 diagnosis with a rare cancer of the salivary glands. Tumors from adenoid cystic carcinoma target the body’s nerves, so fighting the cancer typically comes with a...

Approval is first for transcatheter aortic valve replacement therapy in asymptomatic patients

Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites — on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world’s most dangerous snakes sink their fangs into his arms, all for science.  Now, his bold experiment could...

  More U.S. children have died from the flu this season than in any year since the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according to a new federal report. So far, 216 pediatric deaths have been reported to the...

Consuming too much cinnamon might affect how your body absorbs some medications, new research shows. The study — published in the June issue of the journal Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences — looked at how cinnamon and its...

Testing positive for leukemia actually saved the life of 51-year-old Jan Leahy, a business process owner from Wimbledon, England. Leahy benefitted from a clinical trial evaluating a new bone marrow test that can detect a potential leukemia...

Men are much more likely than women to die early from the world’s 20 leading health problems, a new global study shows. Sickness and death was higher in men than women in 2021 for 13 of the...

An experimental drug might help people with uncontrolled high blood pressure, according to early clinical trial results. People taking lorundrostat experienced twice the decline in their systolic blood pressure than people taking a placebo, researchers reported recently...

Asthma attacks caused emergency room surges during the 2023 Canadian wildfires, with smoke-filled air sending hundreds to the hospital daily, a new study says. Daily asthma-related visits to Ontario hospitals increased nearly 24% during an early-June 2023...