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Bad news for standing desk zealots: you may not be as superior to your seated counterparts as you once thought.

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Melanie Griffith is a chain-smoker who continues to spark up, despite her not-so-distant bout with skin cancer. Now, loved ...

Thump-thump-swoosh-thump. Nothing may be scarier than being told that there has been a murmur detected in the heart of your ...

Two people have died of influenza so far this season, CT health officials said while urging residents to stay up-to-date on ...

According to the National Kidney Foundation, about 14% of Americans have kidney disease and about 90% of them may not know it until it's very advanced.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is an increasingly understood disease, with the genetics and pathophysiology mapped out to the extent that new therapies are emerging.1 The epidemiology, however, ...

"We have a CPR tent where we're going to be having trained volunteers show people how to do hands-only CPR. It's very simple just hard and fast pressing in the middle of the chest after calling 911." ...

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Good news for strawberry lovers. A new study shows that eating strawberries every day can be a delicious way to keep your ...

In 1924 a group of doctors founded the heart association and this event made 100 years, a huge milestone has been marked.