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Lindsay Clancy is charged with murdering her children. Her defense argues she was suffering from severe postpartum mental illness. David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe/hide caption

(From left) Elaine Ho, care clinician and head of community health for Loving Heart, community carer Germaine Soh and care connector Ranjit Kaur

About one-third of the global adult population has excess fat buildup in the liver linked to metabolic factors like obesity and type 2 diabetes. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), formerly known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, can progress to inflammation, cell damage and fibrosis (scarring)

CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Access to health care and more support for mental health conditions are among the top concerns local health officials want Northern Kentucky residents to weigh in on as a regional health survey gets underway

Right now U.S. healthcare has almost everything it needs to eliminate one awful affliction—and then to adapt the resulting victory for going after many others.  

Iowa — Pioneer launched its new Fungicide Timing Solution this year, an integrated approach designed to help corn growers make more confident, data-driven fungicide application decisions and protect yield potential

An abnormal RNA signature tied to TDP-43 dysfunction was associated with poorer cognitive performance and faster decline in people with Alzheimer’s disease, pointing to a potential new biomarker and therapeutic target

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Tauklarify™ (florquinitau F 18 injection) for positron emission tomography (PET) of the brain in adults with cognitive impairment who are being evaluated for Alzheimer disease to identify patients with tau neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) pathology

Chronic inflammation has become one of wellness culture’s favorite villains, blamed for everything from fatigue and weight gain to cancer and cognitive decline. But a sweeping new report from The New York Times reveals a more complicated—and potentially more important—truth: Inflammation isn’t simply harmful, and indiscriminately suppressing it could weaken one of the body’s most…

Rates of chronic disease, obesity and stress continue to rise across America. Experts warn that some of the healthiest habits from the nation’s earlier centuries may have fallen by the wayside