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In your 20s and 30s, heart disease can seem like a far-off concern. It’s more common among people 75 or older than in any other age group. But there’s good reason to think about your heart health decades earlier: “While young adults often associate heart disease with people in their parents’ and grandparents’ ages, it’s … Read more

If you’re asked to share a few fun facts about yourself, you’re probably not going to rattle off your blood pressure or cholesterol levels (even if your “good” cholesterol is, well, really good). But you should have a solid sense of what those numbers are, experts say. Why? “That old adage that an ounce of … Read more

A fast-spreading mpox outbreak in Africa was declared a continent-wide public health emergency, as the region’s main health advisory body invoked this power for the first time as it moved to marshal resources. The declaration will prompt countries in the region to share timely information on mpox’s spread with the Africa Centres for Disease Control … Read more

Face it: sometimes, you’re just too busy to pay attention to your skin. What’s a harried person to do, when skin-care routines touted online often have 10+ steps? We went straight to the source—five dermatologists—for their desert-island tip: the one thing you absolutely must do every day for your skin. The answer was unanimous. 1. … Read more

This summer, some influencers have jumped on the bandwagon of posting TikToks of themselves making sunscreen at home after a popular influencer did so. Experts are now warning people not to make DIY sunscreen as it can be dangerous. Influencer Nara Smith, 22, who is known for sharing videos of herself making everything from cereal … Read more

One sunny day in Los Angeles, Katherine Wilemon was gardening when she developed crushing chest pain, as well as pain radiating down her left arm. She was 39 and fit. Wilemon—who had known since she was a teenager that she had extremely high cholesterol—was certain she was having a heart attack. The EMTs didn’t believe … Read more

After a lifetime in the field of epigenetics, and nearly 20 years after my colleagues and I coined the term “genome editing,” I will be the first to admit that describing the “epigenome”—a marvelous biological process that guides what our genes do—takes a bit of explaining. I find that thinking about the genome and epigenome … Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators on Friday declined to approve the psychedelic drug MDMA as a therapy for PTSD, a major setback for groups seeking a breakthrough decision in favor of using mind-altering substances to treat serious mental health conditions. Drugmaker Lykos Therapeutics said the FDA notified the company that its drug “could not be … Read more

Seventy years ago, two scientists working for the American Cancer Society, E. Cuyler Hammond and Daniel Horn, published one of the first studies definitively linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, adding to a growing scientific consensus that cigarettes were behind a worldwide spike in the disease. This might have been the moment when Americans realized … Read more

All sorts of nasties—lead, mercury, radium, nitrates, norovirus, agricultural runoff, PFAS, and more—can lurk in your water. No surprise, then, that about 40% of U.S. homes filter theirs. But the options are endless, from simple $20 charcoal-filter pitchers to reverse osmosis, point-of-entry, or ultraviolet filters. Depending on what you choose, a water filter can cost … Read more