Nearly half of U.S. adults meet the CDC's definition of high blood pressure, yet only about 1 in 4 have it controlled. Here is how to read the numbers, why home readings differ and what lowers them.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here is when U.S. and UK guidance says screening starts, what breast density notices mean and how to read a callback after a mammogram.
About 115 million U.S. adults have prediabetes, and roughly 8 in 10 do not know it. Here is what the blood-test ranges mean, who is at higher risk and what the evidence says about lowering it.
September and October are the recommended window for a flu shot in the U.S. Here is what CDC guidance says for 2026-27, what last season's high-severity flu looked like, and how vaccination changed the toll.
The World Health Organization found that about one in six common bacterial infections resisted antibiotic treatment in 2023. Here is what that means and what everyday habits help.
Video and phone visits didn't just spike during the pandemic and fade — they settled into a real, if uneven, part of how people get care. Here's where they genuinely work and where they don't.
Most sleep advice treats every tip as equally proven. Here's what the evidence actually supports, what's promising but unproven, and what's mostly tradition dressed up as science.
What wearables are genuinely good at measuring, what they're not, and whether tracking your data actually changes what you do with it.
