Health and Wellness

The drugs millions of Americans take to lose weight may also be quietly lowering their cancer risk — and the science behind that claim just got a lot harder to dismiss.

Quick Take A large study of 86,632 adults found glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist users had a 17% lower overall cancer incidence compared to non-users. Statistically significant risk reductions app...

Stress may not create ulcerative colitis, but it can still push a quiet disease into a noisy flare.

Quick Take Stress and ulcerative colitis are linked through the gut-brain axis, a two-way communication system between the digestive tract and the brain.[3][4][6] WebMD says stress can bring on a flare-up, while also framing the issue as symptom worsening rather than direc...

The biggest muscle-building “secret” after 50 is not a magic powder, but how smartly you combine any high-quality protein with the right kind of strength training.

Story Snapshot Whey plus resistance training did rank near the top across 235 trials, but that does not make whey the only winning protein. Consistent strength training does the heavy lifting for muscle; prote...

The new status symbol for some young British men is not a watch or a car, but an extra three inches of bone in each leg—and the bill for the fallout is landing in NHS wards back home.

Story Snapshot British patients are flying to countries like Turkey for cosmetic leg-lengthening to get taller, then returning with serious complications treated on the NHS. Doctors report ...

Imagine fearing every sip of water because it might make your heart slam on the brakes and drop you to the floor.

Story Snapshot A British midwife, Sarah Hall, says her heart “stopped beating properly” up to 12 times in one day, triggered just by swallowing.[1] Medical literature confirms swallowing-triggered heart rhythm problems are real but rare, with only around a fe...