Over two decades, medical care improvements have increased health spans in the U.S. by 1.3 years and medical spending by $234,000 per person over their lifetime—or about $182,000 per additional healthy year of life gained—when ...
Feb 28, 2026
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Hormone therapy (HT) has proven effective for managing hot flashes and other common menopause symptoms, but questions remain about long-term safety, especially in women aged older than 65 years. A new study evaluated the ...
Feb 4, 2026
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New data has revealed something the UK has never seen before: clear evidence that sexual minority people die earlier, and at higher rates, than their straight or heterosexual peers.
Jan 26, 2026
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Lowering sodium in packaged and prepared foods could significantly improve cardiovascular health and prevent many cases of heart disease, stroke and deaths in the general population in France and the U.K., according to two ...
Jan 26, 2026
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About one in five patients with cancer who undergo genetic testing are incidentally found to have mutations in their blood called clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP). A study by Vanderbilt Health researchers ...
Jan 8, 2026
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Norwegians eat more processed meat such as sausages and salami than in the other Nordic countries. For the first time, researchers have calculated the disease burden and years of life lost caused by an unhealthy diet.
Jan 6, 2026
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After joining the GBD 2021 Household Air Pollution team, an international effort to quantify the global health burden of household air pollution from 1990 to 2021, I expected familiar work: analyzing how indoor smoke harms ...
Dec 9, 2025
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The risk of sudden cardiac death is higher for people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, according to a large study published in the European Heart Journal. The increase in risk is especially noticeable among younger adults.
Dec 3, 2025
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Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is independently associated with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study published online Nov. 10 in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.
Nov 25, 2025
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People in their 30s may risk a heart attack or stroke in later life even when they have "normal" blood pressure, if it's too high or steeply rising, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.
Nov 10, 2025
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