When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight.

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An Arizona Corporation Commission member apologized after clashing on social media with the family of an elderly woman who ...

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A long-conjectured malnutrition-related diabetes has been officially recognized as Type 5 at the World Diabetes Congress in ...

A new handheld medical device could potentially replace a stethoscope as a tool for detecting valvular heart disease, say ...

By Catherine Norton, University of Limerick  If you or someone you love finds it difficult to stand up from the toilet without using your hands, it might seem like a […] ...

Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to calculate whether someone is underweight, at a healthy weight, overweight or obese. But because BMI calculations can't tell the difference between body ...

A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the ...

Officials said the underweight and weak cub was found to have not been taking the feed well. The first cub, born underdeveloped, died on Tuesday. Sanjeet Kumar, director of the National Zoological ...

By Nina Agrawal The news made for an alarming headline this week: Research showed that common chemicals in plastics were associated with 350,000 heart disease deaths across the world in 2018.