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Health Outcomes
Living longer is only half the equation. Here’s how to stay healthier for more of those years.
A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.
In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.
The integration of artificial intelligence into public health could have revolutionary implications for the global south—if only it can get online.
Of the millions of substances people encounter daily, health researchers have focused on only a few hundred. Those in the emerging field of exposomics want to change that.
Waistlines are expanding in most countries, except for a skinny list of nations bucking the trend.
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
Poor research can be worse than no research at all.
Vaccines targeting some of our deadliest cancers are showing promise in early trials.
More than 90% of sexually active men will be infected with human papillomavirus in their lifetime. The virus may reduce fertility.
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
There is a cross-country correlation between democracy and health. Is there good evidence to suggest it is causal?
Could subfertility be an under-explored factor in autism risk?
There is currently no easy way to treat high Lp(a). A single shot could change that.
People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
A new hypothesis accuses the simple sugar of wrecking energy metabolism.
The milestone puts us one step closer to ending the organ shortage.
Long thought a pipe dream, scientists have discovered a drug that mimics the effects of exercise.
If not treated, the disorder drastically increases one's risk of death.
Just 12% of Americans account for half the country's total beef consumption.
And it seems to work alongside popular weight-loss medications, like Ozempic.
Cancer likes glucose. So take it away.
A study found that older adults who cannot balance on one foot for ten seconds have an 84% higher risk of death than those who can.
Be skeptical of a new study questioning the sweetener's safety.
A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.