A bill making its way through the Colorado state legislature this session aims to increase access to mental health care.

Among older adults, the most common integrative therapies were massage and chiropractic care (41 percent each), followed by ...

The National Institutes of Health announced on Friday that it would be capping a type of funding for medical research at hospitals, universities, medical schools and other scientific institutions in ...

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This year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is overhauling food labels, with a major focus on redefining what qualifies ...

the World Health Organization, Scandinavian countries -- all pretty much target high-risk groups, meaning people who have ...

Depression is a mental health condition that causes a chronic feeling of emptiness, sadness, or inability to feel pleasure that may appear to happen for no clear reason. Depression is the leading ...

Some critics also think there should be separation between those who have obesity as defined by certain criteria and those who experience health consequences as a result of obesity. Wen ...

Alan Bernstein, director of the Global Health initiative at the University of Oxford, said WHO was crucial in convincing China to release the genetic sequence early in 2020, which was the basis of ...

according to the definition followed thus far. Relying solely on BMI cut-offs leads to both over- and under-diagnosis of obesity. People with excess body fat may not always have a BMI of more than 30.

“Obesity is defined as a complex, chronic disease characterized by an excessive accumulation of body fat that impairs health,” Katherine N. Balantekin, PhD, RD, an assistant professor in the ...