People with HIV may consider breastfeeding their newborn babies because the benefits may outweigh the very small risk of ...

While elderly people still have more strokes than other age groups, a new CDC study shows an increase in strokes among younger people in recent years.

May 23, 2024 – Experts have long cautioned against eating late at night, especially a large meal loaded with fats or sugars. Now there’s another reason to listen to their advice: Eating within 3 hours ...

May 23, 2024 – More people in the U.S. now use marijuana nearly every day than the number of people who use alcohol daily or most days of the week. In 2022, 17.7 million people reported using ...

Unlike conventional pharmacies, which mostly dispense premade drugs in standard doses, compounding pharmacies make, or "compound," medications on the premises, according to federal guidelines. For ...

May 20, 2024 – Lauren Rogers, a 23-year-old content creator, knew that her vaping was making the dizziness associated with her POTS diagnosis worse. But she couldn’t stop. “I was so addicted,” she ...

In her book "Sex Cells," Phyllis Greenberger says doctors didn’t consider biological sex. If it was successful on a man, they ...

What Is a Nose Piercing? Nose piercings are when a hole is made in your nose so you can wear jewelry in it. It's not a new fad. Nose piercing dates back more than 46,000 years. A piece of kangaroo ...

Welcome, everyone. I'm Dr. John Whyte, the chief medical officer at WebMD. We all know the importance of the heart. We know the importance of the brain. But how important is the gut? We know it ...