Modifiable health risks, such as obesity, high blood pressure and smoking, were linked to more than $730 billion in healthcare spending in the U.S. in 2016, according to a study published in The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a retrospective study, researchers analyzed 62,048 adult patients with STEMI (33% women) from the SWEDEHEART ...

An international collaborative study published in Science Bulletin reveals that over 680,000 new cases of hepatocellular ...

Cardiovascular diseases are still the world’s top killer, yet new research suggests they are far less random than they can ...

Four in 10 cancer cases and about half of cancer deaths among U.S. adults 30 years old and older in 2019 were linked to “modifiable” risk factors like smoking, drinking, poor diet and not getting ...

Maggie O’Neill is a health writer and reporter based in New York who specializes in covering medical research and emerging wellness trends, with a focus on cancer and addiction. Prior to her time at ...

Findings of a Mendelian randomization analysis showed that greater body mass index as a child and adult and incidence of smoking were associated with an increased risk of psoriasis, whereas having ...

Alzheimer disease and other dementias (ADOD) have a substantial impact on the prevalence and costs of certain comorbid conditions compared with matched beneficiaries without ADOD. Objectives: To use ...

The researchers found that about 66.4% of women of reproductive age had at least 1 known modifiable risk factor. HealthDay News — About two-thirds of reproductive-aged women in the United States have ...

The hippocampus is particularly vulnerable to the neurotoxic effects of obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypoxic brain injury, obstructive sleep apnoea, bipolar disorder, clinical depression ...