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

Breast cancers at all stages are defined by the structure of their genomes, researchers find. Targeting these processes early is likely to offer unexpected therapeutic avenues.

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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 ...

Health care is the discipline concerned with the provision and delivery of health services to a patient population by personnel in professional and allied health occupations. We developed a ...

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.