Drinking alone during adolescence and young adulthood can strongly increase the risk for alcohol abuse later in life, especially if you are a woman, a new study finds. Add that finding to the documented increase in drinking among Americans during...

COVID-19 infections have continued to sicken people across the United States as new Omicron subvariants capable of escaping the immune system have become dominant. What worries experts is that protection against Omicron infections and hospitalization from the current vaccines...

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently warned of an infection known as parechovirus that’s been circulating among infants. Also known as PeV, the virus can cause severe illness in very young children and...

Lupus and fibromyalgia have a lot in common. For starters, both conditions are considered to be relatively rare. Between the two, the conditions affect around 5.5 million adults in the United States, with fibromyalgia being the more common of...

A recent study conducted by the Mount Sinai Health System has found that young Black individuals are more likely to have a potentially life-threatening condition affecting the heart than young Hispanic adults. Published in the Journal of the American...

A recent study published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) has found that adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and who had higher levels of physical activity were less likely to experience an atherosclerotic event (e.g. heart...

In a world exhausted by two-plus years of the coronavirus pandemic, another disease, monkeypox, continues to spread more rapidly than ever before. It’s a very different virus from the one that causes COVID-19 and is much harder to transmit,...

Knee pain is among one of the most common types of chronic pain among adults in the United States. When it comes to chronic knee pain, the most common culprit is aging, specifically the injuries and repeated stress on...