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Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. The latest research suggests that protecting your heart involves more than any single healthy habit. It takes a personalized “heart health portfolio,” or a combination of everyday lifestyle habits and health markers that shape cardiovascular health over time

Real talk: There’s one thing you simply can’t live independently without in life—especially as you age. What might that be? Muscle mass. After all, strong muscles are essential for performing daily tasks and the active hobbies you love most with ease

STEATOTIC liver disease (SLD) encompasses MASLD, metabolic and alcohol-related liver disease, and alcohol-related liver disease. Rather than representing discrete conditions, these subtypes frequently overlap, with alcohol exposure and cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs) jointly influencing disease progression

Last winter, Bachmeier was told she had end-stage renal disease and that her kidneys are operating at less than 10%

Last week was the six-month reunion of the Heart Healthy Living class. It was a fun evening to reconnect, try some heart-healthy snacks and review the lessons from February about the importance of blood pressure, cholesterol and stress management for healthy hearts

Augmented intelligence (AI)—also known as artificial intelligence—is already changing how health systems work—from documentation and call centers to patient outreach and predictive models. But healthcare leaders have made it clear that the next phase is not simply about adding more AI tools. It is about building the governance, data infrastructure and operational discipline needed to…

Operation Metro Surge created rapidly changing barriers to healthcare access that challenged traditional assumptions about the responsibilities of healthcare organizations. While healthcare and community organizations responded to the same crisis, they often recognized its impacts differently based on where they encountered patients, how they gathered information, and what they were positioned to see. Drawing on…

Recovery is important, and it gets more important the harder (and more often) you work out. Some wearables like Whoop put a number on your recovery, and others, like Garmin watches, even estimate how long a workout will take you to recover from. But in reality, recovery isn’t as straightforward as that. It’s normal to…

The advent of the GLP-1 and GIP agonist drugs has brought along with it an increased focus on “food noise.” Many people on one or both of those medications report a serious reduction in food noise, which has been defined as “intrusive and often unwanted thoughts about food.” As more and more research has emerged,…

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The National Cancer Plan for England: A closer look