Diseases & Conditions

Read our latest reporting on breakthroughs in managing and treating diseases and health conditions. Learn about the signs and symptoms of various ailments, how your genetics impacts your health, and how diseases affect your body inside and out.

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Recent stories in Diseases & Conditions: What Alzheimer’s Blood Tests Can’t Tell You About Your Dementia Risk; The Breakthrough Drugs Transforming Hemophilia Care; Why Some People Don’t Need as Much Sleep to Feel Refreshed; When Picky Eating is Actually a Psychiatric Disorder; The End of Insulin Injections? How Scientists Are Making Medicine Needle-Free; Are We Treating PMOS All Wrong?; The Mysterious Condition That Causes Painful Fat in Your Legs and Arms; Your Neighborhood Could Influence Your Dementia Risk; How Food Poisoning Can Cause Symptoms That Last for Years; How Heart Disease Can Start as Early as Your 20s; Why Do POTS and Long COVID Look So Much Like Autoimmune Disorders?; Why Kegels Can’t Fix Every Pelvic Floor Problem; Why GLP-1s Could Be an Anti-Aging Breakthrough; 7 Science-Backed Ways to Curb Your Appetite—Without Weight-Loss Drugs; Asthma Is Worse for Women. Doctors Are Finally Starting to Figure Out Why.; The Race to Develop a CTE Test for Football Players—While They Are Still Alive; Why Scientists Say This Personalized Cancer Vaccine Could Be a Game-Changer; Why Some People Are Born With Devastating Gene Mutations—And Never Get Sick; How Losing Just an Hour of Sleep a Night Could Affect Your Weight; Could Electricity Zap Away Chronic Disease?; Bridge to Breakthrough: Preventing HIV infections in Kenya, one conversation at a time; The breakthrough that could end preeclampsia, a leading cause of maternal deaths; Closing the Loop on Spinal Surgery; We're getting closer to a breakthrough on hearing loss; Gardening is linked to a longer life. Here’s how it helps your body.