Health

More than 150,000 American are infected with HIV, and don’t know they have it — suggesting that testing and prevention services “have not reached enough Americans,” CDC officials said on Tuesday....Read More

The gene-targeting drug olaparib, marketed under the name Lynparza and already used for breast and ovarian cancer, was effective at slowing disease progression in more than 80 percent of men with prostate cancer....Read More

A new survey suggests people under 36 lack basic knowledge of HIV, how it is transmitted, treatment and survival with undetectable levels of the virus....Read More

According to the CDC’s weekly report, 2.9 percent of all visits to healthcare providers last week were related to influenza, up from 2.5 percent the previous week. There were 2,100 new cases of flu reported to...

As many as one in five adolescents and one in four young adults has prediabetes, a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found....Read More

Stomach acid-reducing drugs known as proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs, nearly doubled people’s risk for developing an intestinal viral infection in a recent study — particularly in those 45 years of age and older....Read More

A four-year study of Mexican-born women who reside in farming area of California finds that study subjects were more than twice as likely to develop high blood pressure when concerned about deportation....Read More

Binge drinking is on the rise and, while men generally drink more than women, a new study shows an increasing number of women with children are acknowledging that they either drink or binge drink....Read More

An analysis of U.S. life expectancy finds risk for death among adults under age 65 is increasing due to opioid drug overdose and suicide, among other causes — which experts point out is not happening in...

A drug used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients may have a new use: slowing aging in human skin. The drug rapamycin was found in a small trial to decrease wrinkles, reduce sagging and even...