1. Whether you're in the city or the country — walk more. Research shows walking is great for physical and mental health.

That wide-ranging impact is why Popular Science chose the drops as the 2025 Health category winner. This year’s list also ...

Is there a “least bad” alcohol? Is Benadryl harming your health? Here are the answers you wanted most this year.

The actor James Van Der Beek, known for Dawson’s Creek, revealed at the end of 2024, when he was 47, that he’d been diagnosed ...

Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, ...

From new workouts like Japanese walking to health news like the rise of measles and alpha-gal syndrome, learn about the phenomena that defined 2025.

Since negotiations for a United Nations treaty to address plastic pollution began more than three years ago, protecting human health has risen to the top of many countries’ priority lists. This is ...

A fight over health policy drove the current federal government shutdown. At issue is the cost of premiums for health care plans people buy on the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, marketplaces.

Imagine walking into your doctor’s office feeling sick – and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together data from ...

While technology has always played a role in diagnosing and treating disease, the health care industry as a whole has been slower to adopt innovative digital platforms for analyzing data to change how ...

A survey shows employers expect a sharp increase in benefit costs for next year, and many will want workers to shoulder more of the burden. By Reed Abelson Employees of large and small companies are ...

TYLER, Texas (AP) — Celia Monreal worries every day about the cartilage loss in her husband’s knees. Not just because it’s hard for her to see him in pain but also because she knows soon their health ...