A new study finds that worrying about police brutality and harassment is associated with physical markers of cardiovascular ...

Objective Anxiety affects up to one-third of adults with asthma and is linked to poorer disease outcomes and reduced quality ...

American guidance on recommendations for the management of adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) has been updated. The guideline stresses routine care at ACHD centers with ACHD cardiologists, with ...

The Los Angeles wildfires of nearly a year ago took an unexpectedly heavy toll on residents’ health, a new study found. An unusually large number of people suffered from heart attacks, lung conditions ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

As a cardiologist, I see this far too often: women come to us later in the course of heart disease, sometimes after weeks or even months of vague symptoms that were dismissed or misdiagnosed. We've ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the toughest materials known to science. That is, it can absorb massive amounts ...

More adults are dealing with acne, not fewer—and the issue is particularly acute for women. One viral social media video on the topic is drawing attention to the surge that some experts say may be ...

In 2024, Kara Goodwin started feeling a pain in her arm and shoulder that wouldn’t go away. She was diagnosed with bicep tendinitis and frozen shoulder. Doctors thought the resident of Brooklyn, New ...

Reintroduction of the Cyclin A2 gene enables adult human cardiomyocytes to divide, producing functional daughter cells and promoting heart repair. The therapy uses a replication-deficient adenoviral ...

For years, telehealth has promised to bring the doctor’s office to us. In reality, it’s been a video call where you awkwardly describe symptoms and hope your thermometer, pulse oximeter, or smartwatch ...

American Cancer Society's Jerchelle Jean-Poix discusses Lung Cancer Awareness Month and health disparities of lung cancer in Black women. An ACS "VOICES" group is looking to change that outcome with a ...