The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.Using body-mass ...

A global commission endorsed by 75 medical organizations around the world and published online Jan. 14 in The Lancet ...

Lifetime sexual harassment has a pooled rate of 11.4 percent among children, while contact sexual violence has a rate ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-supported double-reading mammography is associated with a higher breast cancer detection ...

Implementation of an electronic patient-recorded outcome (ePRO) monitoring system improves patient-physician communic ...

Beginning cigarette smoking before 15 years of age is significantly associated with later chronic obstructive pulmona ...

Men are more than three times as likely to die from a traumatic brain injury compared to women, a new study says.Abou ...

All women 65 and older should continue to be screened for osteoporosis, the nation’s leading preventive health panel ...

A deadly bird flu outbreak has wreaked havoc on U.S. chicken farms, claiming the lives of over 20 million egg-laying ...

A popular diabetes drug can provide protection against skin cancers, a new study says.Metformin significantly reduces ...

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are plagued by unwanted and distressing memories over which they ha ...

The lifetime risk of dementia in a community-based cohort is 42 percent after age 55 years, according to a study publ ...