The truth is, it isn't a medical standard and has no medical research to support it. So where, then, did the famous 10,000 steps a day...

Some of the symptoms of heart disease are subtle – some so subtle that they can seem like minor issues totally unconnected to a heart...

Get a dog. Dogs get you out of the house. They give you a reason to go outside and breathe fresh air. They get you moving. Dogs force you...

Almost half of all American adults are classified with high blood pressure – over 130 systolic or 80 diastolic. But it turns out that a...

Quick and easy indoor exercises to keep cool in the summer and fall.

The answer is a definite maybe. For certain women over 70, the risks of overdiagnosis and treatment may outweigh the risks of cancer,...

One month ago, the American Medical Association formally rejected Body Mass Index (body weight in kilograms divided by the square of...

Probably the most widely used test for prostate cancer is the annual PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test, which measures the blood...

In an 81-page report released last week, the US Surgeon General stated that loneliness poses health risks as deadly as smoking 15...

Healthwise, coffee’s reputation is, at best, mixed. On the downside, early medical studies found that drinking coffee could spike blood...

So are pollen, mold, dust, deer ticks, adenovirus, rhinovirus, and norovirus. And after a long, cold winter, people are more apt to...

More accurately, those minutes can keep years from being subtracted. “We’ve known for probably about a decade now that [prolonged]...

About 15% of American adults over 65 are considered frail, in that they meet three or more of these criteria: · Low physical...

The problem isn’t waking up in the middle of the night; cycling out of sleep every two hours or so is normal. The real problem is not...

There very well could be, two research studies suggest, and it’s your water faucet. Specifically, they suggest that drinking enough water...

It’s incontinence. Depending on whose statistics you believe, between 15 and 23million Americans have it, 80 to 85 percent of them women....

According to American Heart Association 2022 statistics, some 850,000 Americans a year have heart attacks, 41% of whom (350,000) die from...

In 2019, more than 1.3 million women over 65 underwent a Pap test, colposcopy, or some other cervical procedure, at a total cost of $83...

It depends. Medical research has found that exercise in general can help promote heart health, prolong life, and postpone the onset of...

Almost 25% of all Americans 65 and older – some 13,525,000 men and women – have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. But another 4.7%...