Health

When people are young, if they are fortunate enough to enjoy good health, they get to move their bodies with carefree abandon — running, jumping, bending, dancing, twisting — in...

Although often invisible, chronic pain is everywhere. More than one-quarter of Americans have pain lasting more than three months. With medical treatment and lost productivity costs of up to $635...

A U.S. senator said a GLP-1 drug changed his life — and now he’s calling for widespread access to anti-obesity medications. In a New York Times op-ed on April 8,...

Coffee doesn’t contain cholesterol. But depending on how it’s brewed, it may contain compounds that affect cholesterol levels—particularly LDL, the so-called “bad cholesterol.” Cafestol and kahweol. If coffee has no...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever...

As warmer days approach, many Angelenos eager to once again spread their toes in the sand may find an unwelcome sight along the shoreline: dark, ashy sediment still sitting on...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back...

CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — spent time in tribal communities in Arizona and New Mexico this week highlighting ways they are trying to prevent among Native Americans and Alaska Natives, something...

A fertility clinic in Australia has confirmed a critical error in which one woman gave birth to another couple’s child after an embryo transfer went wrong. The incident occurred at...

The following restaurants and markets in Los Angeles County have been shut down or allowed to reopen by the county’s public health department from April 1 through April 10. The inspections examine...