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If you are trying to cut back on added sugar — and you should, because excess sugar increases risks for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease — you might be tempted…

Loneliness is complicated. You can feel lonely when you lack friends and miss companionship, or when you're surrounded by people — even friends and family. Either way, loneliness can have…

Ever see ads for products that promise to supercharge immunity? Activate your body's natural defenses? Support a healthy immune system while delivering a potent boost derived from nature's hottest immune-enhancing…

Now that it's 2024, perhaps you've thought about taking up a new exercise program, eating better, or some other ways to improve your health. That's great! Or, as my grandfather…

Bone-deep exhaustion not eased by rest, lasting six months or more. Brain fog. Pain. These and other symptoms are hallmarks of myalgic encephalitis/chronic fatigue syndrome  (ME/CFS). People who have it…

When we think about radiation therapy, we typically picture treatments directed at tumors by a machine located outside the body. Now imagine a different scenario — one in which radioactive…

Last winter, my wife shooed the dog and visiting toddlers away from our poinsettia plants, saying "they're poisonous, you know." I did not know. But it turns out that the…

I was in line at a pharmacy recently as the customer ahead of me was picking up her prescription. The pharmacist matter-of-factly said: "that'll be $850." All she could say…

It isn't often that a study leads to fundamental changes in how cancer patients are treated. But new research is doing just that for some men with prostate cancer that…

Dementia usually develops in people ages 65 years and older. So-called young-onset dementia, occurring in those younger than age 65, is uncommon. Now, a new study published in December 2023…