In patients with a poorly functioning bioprosthetic mitral valve in the heart, a minimally invasive procedure to insert a new ...

Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the Middle Ages. What would their lives have been like ...

Macon is on track to surpass the city’s total number of homicides this year compared to 2025, according to death records ...

The age on your driver's license may not be the same age as the cells in your body. Scientists use something called an epigenetic clock, which looks at certain chemical tags in DNA to measure your ...

Many of us have heard of a colonoscopy, an outpatient procedure in which a physician uses a thin, flexible scope to examine ...

A child born in San Diego in 2024 is expected to live into his or her 80s, but community and ethnicity have an impact too.

Cohort life tables track the mortality experience of people born in each year from 1876.Key factsCohort life tables give the ...

Colorectal cancer incidence in adults under 55 has nearly doubled since the mid-1990s, and it is now the leading cancer cause ...

Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer, is no longer just a concern for older adults. A recent American Cancer Society ...

Politics, retirement savings and salary were once the forbidden fruit of polite conversation. Not anymore.

When Carol Anderson’s mother needed memory care in Cedar City three years ago, the family discovered something their ...

Since the criteria for citizenship expanded with the passage of Bill C-3 of Canada’s Citizenship Act, millions of Americans ...