
Study finds BMI, despite flaws, is useful estimate of body fat in children
The body mass index has long been slammed as a blunt instrument for evaluating health, even more so with new obesity drugs changing the conversation
The body mass index has long been slammed as a blunt instrument for evaluating health, even more so with new obesity drugs changing the conversation
Stroke prevalence has been climbing over the past decade, reversing a steady decline among all Americans while rising the most among adults under 65, a
To better understand problems in the brain’s blood vessels that may lead to stroke, we need a better way to see them. Cardiovascular imaging can
Tolerance is the holy grail in calming autoimmune disease, a truce in the immune system’s faulty battle against the body’s own fabric. In type 1
Children and adolescents diagnosed with high blood pressure have double the risk of major cardiovascular problems as adults, a new study that followed them into
Blood vessels in the legs or heart sustain considerable damage when they are narrowed by poor circulation from diabetes or blocked in a heart attack.
Heart failure mortality rates are moving in the wrong direction, a new analysis reports, reversing a decline in deaths that means more people in the
People in Republican-voting states were more likely to report adverse events after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination than people living in Democratic-leaning states, a new analysis
Drug development is more of a sprint than a marathon these days, thanks to more and better ways to target underlying biology and a more
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Jodi Cullity calls herself a pickleball fanatic. The 29-year-old is the founding CEO of Eleven-0, an organization devoted to the sport, in