Jul. 3, 2025 -- How does oral health affect your entire body? What is the oral microbiome, and how can oral bacteria trigger inflammation beyond your mouth? In this episode, we spoke to Nammy Patel, ...

During his freshman year at Duke University, a persistent headache sent Josh Sommer on a diagnostic journey. The reveal: a tumor right below his pituitary gland in front of his brainstem. Called a ...

A new drug combination cuts the risk of death in people with advanced prostate cancer by 40% over eight years, according to ...

Sept. 4, 2025 -- Medications are designed to work best when stored at the right temperature, but heat can affect their potency and even increase health risks. How exactly can heat compromise the ...

WebMD: Health disparities is a relatively new field. What’s its focus and purpose? Pérez-Stable: In health outcomes, poor people do worse than people with more resources. It was observed 40 years ago ...

You don’t have health insurance. You don’t have enough health insurance to afford them. The drugs you need aren't covered by your insurance. Some programs are even available for those who don’t ...

Each of WebMD’s 2016 Health Heroes has one thing in common: They saw the need for change, and used their passion, intellect, and creativity to bring it about. And behind each Health Hero was an ...

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When Neena Nizar was a child, doctors attributed the skeletal problems that gave her clubbed fingers and made her bones soft and prone to bending to polio, then later, rickets, both of which she would ...

Sickle cell disease is an inherited red blood cell disorder that affects the oxygen-carrying proteins (hemoglobin) in red blood cells, contorting them into a crescent moon shape, making movement ...