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A new study ties the odds of conception to the advantages of the neighborhood a woman lives in. In a cohort of more than 6,000 women who were trying to get pregnant without fertility treatments, the probability of conception was…

About 80% of US adults have low to moderate cardiovascular (CV) health based on the American Heart Association (AHA) checklist for optimal heart health, which now includes healthy sleep as an essential component for heart health. With the addition of…

There’s no doubt that co-parenting can present some unique challenges, and most parents who are separated or divorced want to do everything they possibly can to minimize the impact on their kids. But in Reddit’s popular “Am I the A**hole”…

About 129,000 of cancer deaths per year could be prevented across 34 European countries simply by adding vitamin D to common foods, such as milk and margarine, a recent analysis suggests. That would translate to 1.2 million prevented-years-of-life-lost or about…

Fourth of July celebrations often include festive picnics and dazzling fireworks, but these holiday pyrotechnics are causing a growing number of injuries and deaths. Fireworks-related injuries and deaths in the United States have climbed by about 25% over the past…

Acute cholangitis is a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection that often is associated with gallstones. Symptoms include fever, jaundice, right upper quadrant pain, and elevated liver enzymes. While these may seem like distinctive, telltale symptoms, unfortunately, they are similar to those…

As a child growing up in San Jose, California, Marta Segura heard horrific stories from her parents about women fainting on the factory lines and men overheating in the farm fields. They didn’t know those jobs exposed them to life-threatening…

Astronauts lose decades’ worth of bone mass in space that many do not recover even after a year back on Earth, researchers said Thursday, warning that it could be a “big concern” for future missions to Mars. Previous research has…

HIV has an “early and substantial” impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with normal aging within just two to three years of infection, according to a study by UCLA researchers and colleagues. The…

It may be too cold to swim in Australia right now (it’s their winter, after all!), but that doesn’t stop Bindi Irwin and her 1-year-old daughter Grace Warrior from enjoying the beach. The two recently hung out on the sand…