Health

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

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Cold showers benefit the environment and your health

The parts of fruits and vegetables most throw away could save your health – and the planet

Climate change and health: Leopoldina and Chinese Academy publish joint declaration

What does voter suppression have to do with health?

BioScience special issue maps key challenges and opportunities facing one health

Recreational football can improve health in people with diabetes and prediabetes

Disaster recovery efforts temporarily boosted health for some men, Northwestern study finds

Social determinants of health linked with kidney failure risk among survivors of critical illness and acute kidney injury

Attacks on water systems are attacks on health, warn experts

Use green transition funds to achieve health for all

Researchers warn of growing threats to sleep health across Europe

New Medicaid work requirements illustrate how ‘law is a determinant of health for patients and physicians alike’

Don’t go breaking my heart: Mizzou researchers explore how couples’ daily lives may affect health

Trump signs order creating NIH division, task force for women's health

Who gets Alzheimer’s drugs? Race, vulnerability and health status shape access

The Lancet: New Commission provides roadmap to protect economies, security and global stability from catastrophic threats to health and human survival

For your health — making the switch to healthier fats

The world’s oyster reefs could add $12 trillion to planetary health each year – if they were better managed

American College of Lifestyle Medicine welcomes national resolution advancing nature as a foundation for health and well-being

When the clocks stop changing: What time is best for health?