Physical sports have long been known to help with anxiety and mental health. But can augmented and virtual reality sports ...

Patients who have a new type of lens implanted in their eyes during surgery for cataracts or to correct their eyesight have excellent or good vision over distances both near and far, and often no ...

The characteristics of type 2 diabetes vary from patient to patient and it has been proposed that the condition is made up of ...

The new class of anti-obesity drugs, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), is proving remarkably effective at ...

Limited access and scarce funds are the key challenges facing health officials trying to respond to the latest Ebola outbreak ...

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Although Black men die of prostate cancer at twice the rate of the rest of U.S. males, this fact often is not known or ...

What compels someone to keep engaging in alcohol use, even if it damages their health, relationships and well-being? A new ...

Kissing bugs may sound charming, but with one bite, these insects can spread a dangerous parasitic infection: Chagas disease.

Noncommunicable disease (NCD) mortality decreased in most countries around the world from 2010 to 2019, according to a study ...

University of Illinois Chicago-led researchers have found that a common gut yeast, Candida albicans, can help Salmonella ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking new steps to regulate direct-to-consumer drug advertisements and eliminate ...