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Pre-pandemic, an estimated 1 in 8 total deaths among U.S. adults ages 20 to 64 were attributable to excessive alcohol use. And it accounted for 1 in 5 deaths among adults ages 20 to 49 between...

U.S. death rates from heart disease spiked in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after a steady decline from 2010 to 2019 and reversing a decades-long drop since at least the 1990s....Read More

Even small amounts of daily coffee consumption during pregnancy may lead to offspring’s short stature in early childhood, a new study suggests....Read More

Science consumer advocacy groups have urged the Food and Drug Administration to remove Red. No. 3 from foods as an additive that’s been long linked to cancer and banned from use in cosmetics for more than...

The death of a 3-year-old girl in Texas earlier this month was confirmed Friday to be flu-related, making it the second pediatric flu death of the season....Read More

A new study on the prevalence of long COVID symptoms among a representative sample of U.S. adults found 15% of people who tested positive for the virus reported symptoms lasting longer than two months....Read More

Pre-pandemic cancer death rates continued to decline among men, women, children, adolescents and young adults in every major racial and ethnic group in the U,S. from 2015 to 2019, newly released federal data show....Read More

A low-carb diet may help prevent Type 2 diabetes, lowering the blood sugar of people with unmedicated diabetes and people at risk for disease, a new study suggests....Read More

A global meta-analysis offers the strongest evidence to date that lowering high blood pressure in seniors can reduce the risk of dementia, researchers said Tuesday....Read More

Exposure to specific chemicals within e-cigarette liquids may trigger heart arrhythmias and electrical dysfunction — cardiac effects that are similar or worse than what conventional cigarettes may prompt....Read More