Disease

Expectant parents are bombarded from all directions about what they should or should not worry about before the baby is even born - not that this ever stops after delivery.

I was skeptical about the latest announcement by 23andMe surrounding the release of their new report describing to it subscribers their risk of Type 2 diabetes.

Comedian, actress and “The View” talk show host Whoopi Goldberg survived, but is still recovering from, a harrowing ordeal.

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a common medical problem.

As a faithful reader will recognize, I am of an age when, in the words of Billy Crystal, “we pee in Morse Code.” One of the companion symptoms is nocturia, medically defined as getting up at night to urinate and sleeping both before and after.

Charles Piller has written a very interesting article on pre-diabetes, the link is at the bottom, and is worth the 10 minutes.

I'm about to be a father for the very first time to a beautiful baby girl. So, I'm going to try to write this article as calmly and rationally as possible.

I've been in science communication for over 8 years. If there's only one thing I learned, it's this: People don't respond to facts.

With the tragic death of beloved actor Luke Perry of television’s Beverly Hills 90210 and Riverdale fame secondary to last week’s reported “mass

If you set up a Google News alert for "norovirus" be prepared to get a whole lot of emails right now.