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School used to be pretty easy for Kate Jarvis when she was a little girl, back in the 1980s. She was a straight-A student, creative, and so organized that she’d even prep her toothbrush with toothpaste each night before school. She says her mother used to call her “bright-eyed and bushy tailed.”

At SightMD Pennsylvania, we are proud to recognize July as Dry Eye Awareness Month — a time dedicated to raising awareness about one of the most common and often overlooked eye conditions affecting millions of Americans every year

A sweeping study of 3.1 million adults in Denmark—the largest of its kind—found a striking association between chronic road noise near home and the progressive neurological disorder

Gaza City — Every morning, photojournalist Mohammed al-Qahouji tries to piece together a life that the war nearly took from him

PHOENIX (AZFamily/Gray News) – An Arizona firefighter donated one of her kidneys to her husband, also a firefighter, after he was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease and entered stage 5 kidney failure

For a young woman whose odds of surviving childhood were slim, Annabelle Green is doing quite well, her mother Jennifer told me recently. Annabelle walks, communicates, enjoys visiting the local hot springs, having books read to her at the library and exploring Idaho

When service staff Noel Joshua Selvanathan, 36, first learnt that his son, Isaiah, was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition and needed a liver transplant to survive, he feared there was little he could do to help

For decades, cholesterol has been considered one of the primary risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, but despite high awareness and available treatments, heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Now, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association are publishing new clinical guidelines, which could change the way millions of people…

A new perspective paper argues that official public health advice for protein intake and exercise may be outdated, as it focuses on preventing disease rather than maximizing long-term health

Overall, the evidence for the benefits of taking multivitamins is mixed. It’s generally advised to get the nutrients you need from food