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Alcohol consumption has contributed to nearly 100,000 cancer cases in the U.S. and about 20,000 cancer deaths per year, ...

As New Year's Eve revelers across the world clinked glasses and ordered rounds, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy was in the midst ...

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To come up with its maps, GoodRx used population estimates from the 2024 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Places dataset and calculated adult diabetes rates and age-adjusted ...

Basic public health protections help augment our national security protections,” particularly when it comes to emerging ...

Last week, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a statement warning Americans that drinking alcoholic beverages can cause ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

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A study found that the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, combined with obesity measures, significantly correlates with ...