Risk factors contributing to LBP worldwide have shifted between 1990 and 2021, with high BMI increasingly impacting years lived with disability due to LBP.

A new analysis links higher triglyceride-glucose (TyG) and TyG–body mass index (TyG-BMI) levels to increased colorectal ...

"You should have a minimum of three bowel movements per week, preferably one a day. A patient from the ER started vomiting ...

Your Body Mass Index (BMI) is often an indicator to diagnose obesity. Combating obesity is paramount to overall health. According to The National Health Institute, 1 in 3 adults are considered ...

If you’ve been craving avocados, you’re not just fueling your body with healthy fats—you might also be supporting your baby’s ...

Myriad factors affect how much a person eats on any particular day, among them utensil size, plate color, room temperature, ...

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

During the time period 2020 to 2023, approximately 1 in 5 youth and 1 in 3 adults with type 1 diabetes and severe obesity ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request from Milwaukee’s public health department for assistance in managing unsafe lead levels in the city’s public schools ...

In an April 8 letter, the CDC advised health departments that travelers going to outbreak areas in the U.S. should follow local vaccination guidance. These new steps dovetail with a rapid rise in ...

The CDC laid off all of the staff in its Vessel Sanitation Program, whose salaries are paid by cruise ship company fees, according to CBS News. A smaller group of 12 U.S. Public Health Service ...