A person’s BMI score can give a skewed view of their health, experts believe.

Medication and psychological treatments are a vital first line of defense against mental illness - but lifestyle changes can help, too.

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Patients who followed an intermittent fasting plan for several months no longer needed to use insulin.

An estimated 4.2 million people worldwide die prematurely because of air pollution each year.

Typhus can cause serious complications requiring hospitalization.

Men with smaller than average penises found it harder to conceive, scientists discovered.

Losing 5 percent of body weight was associated with a 12 percent reduction in breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.

The discovery could help the 50 percent of men who do not respond to current treatments.

Acute flaccid myelitis affects the nervous system, specifically, the central region of the spinal cord.