People whose body weight range from underweight to obese have a longer life expectancy if they walk more briskly compared to those in the same weight category who don’t.

Private insurers paid four times more to cover patients for dialysis treatment than government insurance programs.

Intensive blood pressure treatment may reduce the amount of deep brain bleeding in people who have a stroke — which may help researchers and doctors lower the death rate from the condition.

Older adults may not be as worried about losing their memory as they should be, prompting concern from doctors that they won’t seek help, a new study says.

People with severe obstructive sleep apnea have a 50 percent higher risk of dying 30 days after major surgery.

Patients given a so-called “safer” opioid have a higher chance of prolonged use, even though the drug has a low risk of addiction, a new study says.

To reduce the risk of dementia and cognitive decline, new guidelines released by the World Health Organization recommend people eliminate risk factors that bring on the deadly disease.

People with both PTSD and suicidal thoughts have high levels of metabotropic glutamatergic receptor 5 compared to those without those thoughts, which may help identify patients at greatest need for treatment.

People without a history of heart disease and stroke who took low-dose aspirin were more likely to experience bleeding inside the skull, according to a new study.

For the week ending May 4, only two states reported a higher level of flu activity, suggesting the flu season is starting to wrap up.