Intermittent fasting is a popular health and fitness trend these days. It is not a diet but an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. It’s used…
The smell of dinner cooking used to mean something good was about to happen. Now it’s the first warning sign of a rough night ahead. That shift where food goes…
When you pick up a new medication at the pharmacy, you can trust its safety and effectiveness because thousands of people participated in clinical trials for it. To ensure a drug or…
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) may show up on the skin, but its impact can reach nearly every part of a person’s life. Flares can affect mental health, relationships, family planning, mobility,…
High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is known as a “silent killer” because often there are no symptoms. Black Americans develop high blood pressure at a higher rate than any…
When your sex life suddenly feels different, it’s easy to take it personally. Maybe you don’t want sex as often as you used to. You want to be intimate, but…
Some families can tell you everybody who had high blood pressure, who had “sugar,” and which uncle had a heart attack before 50. But ask exactly who had prostate cancer,…
Sponsored by Cedars-Sinai Diagnosed at 30 and Successfully Treated at Cedars-Sinai, Woman Turns to Helping Other Young Survivors Professional dancer Mataya Dade remembers the morning two years ago when she…
Metastatic breast cancer (mBC), or stage IV breast cancer, occurs when cancerous cells have spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to other body parts. Once the cancer has…
In this episode of An Expert Explains, Dr. Kyra Barnes explains how to recognize early warning signs of oral cancer and why noticing changes in your mouth is essential to…
You may have seen the headline: Loneliness can be as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It’s a powerful comparison, but it needs some context. With health risks as…
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