Alcohol and preexisting health conditions raise risk of advanced liver disease
Why do some people who consume a few glasses of alcohol a day develop advanced liver disease while others who...
Diseases and medical conditions
Difference Between Syndrome, Disorder, and Disease
Medical terminology has often confused some of the everyday health conditions related to a body part. Several terms, notably syndrome,...
The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all | Health
Some years ago Camilla Nord suffered such persistent pain at the site of an old injury that doctors thought she...
huge study identifies new health risks
Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs have a range of side effects and benefits that researchers are analysing.Credit: Steve Christo/Corbis via...
Loss of smell linked to inflammation across 139 distinct medical conditions
In a recent review published in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, researchers from UC Irvine and the University of Oxford have...
Obesity Consensus: A Lifestyle Choice, Risk Factor, or Full-fledged Disease?
The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is sparking...
How winter affects chronic conditions
We all have triggers for some particular health condition. Eat spicy food, for example, and you might get heartburn. Lift...
Experts propose ‘preclinical’ and ‘clinical’ obesity
The body mass index is not going away, a new report suggests, but it could be demoted to just a...
Free health checks seen as an antidote to diseases in Indonesia – World
People with their children brought in for a monthly medical checkup at an integrated services post in Banda Aceh, Indonesia,...
