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.

Doctors are starting to agree on when obesity is a disease

Health
Doctors are starting to agree on when obesity is a disease
Doctors are starting to agree on when obesity is a disease

Scientists cured sickle cell. Then their next challenge began.

Health
Scientists cured sickle cell. Then their next challenge began.
Scientists cured sickle cell. Then their next challenge began.

Deaths from this cancer can now be virtually eliminated

Health
Deaths from this cancer can now be virtually eliminated
Deaths from this cancer can now be virtually eliminated

How South Korea makes the most innovative sunscreen in the world

Health
How South Korea makes the most innovative sunscreen in the world
How South Korea makes the most innovative sunscreen in the world

Why existing vaccines won’t help the Ebola outbreak

Health
Why existing vaccines won’t help the Ebola outbreak
Why existing vaccines won’t help the Ebola outbreak

The surprising ways exercise helps the body fight cancer

Health
The surprising ways exercise helps the body fight cancer
The surprising ways exercise helps the body fight cancer

Tetanus is making a comeback. There’s an easy way to fight back.

Health
Tetanus is making a comeback. There’s an easy way to fight back.
Tetanus is making a comeback. There’s an easy way to fight back.

Scientists develop breakthrough potential cure for hepatitis B

Health
Scientists develop breakthrough potential cure for hepatitis B
Scientists develop breakthrough potential cure for hepatitis B

Is this the most overlooked indicator of women's health?

Health
Is this the most overlooked indicator of women's health?
Is this the most overlooked indicator of women's health?

A rare Ebola strain is spreading. Here's what you need to know.

Health
A rare Ebola strain is spreading. Here's what you need to know.
A rare Ebola strain is spreading. Here's what you need to know.

How the bacteria in your gut could raise colon cancer risk

Health
How the bacteria in your gut could raise colon cancer risk
How the bacteria in your gut could raise colon cancer risk

This type of cholesterol can quadruple your heart-attack risk

Health
This type of cholesterol can quadruple your heart-attack risk
This type of cholesterol can quadruple your heart-attack risk

Inside the science of great sleep

Science
Inside the science of great sleep
Inside the science of great sleep

What is hantavirus? Here's what to know about how it spreads

Health
What is hantavirus? Here's what to know about how it spreads
What is hantavirus? Here's what to know about how it spreads

Eating less food can actually make weight loss harder—here’s why

Health
Eating less food can actually make weight loss harder—here’s why
Eating less food can actually make weight loss harder—here’s why
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