In 2020, the National Center for Health Statistics found that the poorer Americans were, the greater their likelihood of reporting difficulty falling asleep. If you look at the CDC map of the ...

I ran four miles every day, did breathing exercises, listened to a meditation tape a friend gave me. Useless. I finally caved and saw my general practitioner, who prescribed Ambien, telling me to feel ...

The Trump administration wants to reverse the decline in the US birthrate. But in 21 states, deaths already outnumber births.

It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate over the years," ...

Our body mass index is categorized into underweight, normal, overweight, and obese based on data largely from white middle-aged men—decades ago. SCIENCE We’ve been measuring BMI since the 70s ...

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A presentation slated to be shared at this week’s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in animals ...

NEW YORK (AP) — All 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel published an essay Monday decrying “destabilizing decisions" made by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F ...

BMI = weight (in kilograms)/height (in meters) 2 In the U.S., doctors need to do a little extra work to get inches and pounds ...

Summer 2025 is off to a hot start with a heat wave stifling much of the US this week. Use this tool to track the risk in your ...