America is a nation awash in lifestyle diseases, nearly all of which are chronic. From hypertension, which impacts close to half of all adults, to chronic kidney disease, affecting more than one in ...

A study of over 18,000 Chinese adults links short sleep and insufficient physical activity to higher multimorbidity odds and ...

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly say GLP-1 drugs slowed aging clocks, but the data are early and unreviewed. Here is what patients should know. A study of 1.4 million women links pregnancy complications to ...

Vaccines don’t just shield you from specific infectious diseases or help make symptoms less severe if you get sick but can also prevent common chronic illnesses, including some cancers, according to ...

In the early 1900s, improved public health brought about a major shift: Deaths from infectious illnesses like pneumonia, tuberculosis and diphtheria declined. Meanwhile, deaths from noncommunicable ...