Eating cheese every day may help to protect heart health

For many years now, I’ve published an end-of-year list of my most-read articles, based on digital metrics. If you missed them when they were originally published, you can get caught up on the big health stories of the year by clicking on links below. The vast majority were the result of deep-dive reporting or …

Researchers suggest that eating a small amount of cheese every day may benefit heart health. These new findings come from an analysis of 15 observational studies that looked at the effects of cheese intake on the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Study co-author Li-Qiang Qin — who works in the …

To evaluate just how serious the participants’ addictions were, the researchers used standardized tests focusing on the extent to which smartphone and Internet use impacted the performance of daily activities, harming productivity and social life, as well as sleep and mental health. “The higher the score [on …

Your health may not be as good as you want it to be. You will not be able to stick to your exercise regime. Position of planets here indicates that you will catch some health problem. Take due precautionary measures to ward off the trouble. There will be constant fluctuations in your health. Workload will …

Dr. Benjamin Hoffman (L) speaks with Nancy Minoui about 9 month old Marion Burgess, who suffers from a chronic heart condition, at an appointment at the Dornbecher Children’s hospital in Portland, Oregon, U.S. December 6, 2017. Picture taken December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Natalie Behring Reuters.

The seemingly imminent repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance requirement, which could happen next week as part of the final passage of Republicans’ broad tax overhaul, has focused attention on Congress’ potential next moves on health care, including a bipartisan plan to shore up the insurance …

Now, innovative methods for counting the dead are being rolled out in the Southeast Asian nation, revealing previously under-appreciated patterns of disease that may change health policies and strategies. Known as verbal autopsies, the data-gathering relies on midwives quizzing family members.

American Democrats are following Bernie Sanders in embracing single-payer healthcare on the Canadian model. But when they get sick, our neighbors to the north increasingly find that the only way to get “free” medical care is to wait for weeks or months. The Fraser Institute’s new report, “Waiting Your …

Skin, the largest organ of the human body, is a mirror of your health. So whenever something goes wrong inside, it eventually starts reflecting on the skin. One such sign is hyperpigmentation, a sign from your skin that all is not well within your body. Hyperpigmentation is a dermatological condition when the …