Circadian researchers explain why a single hour can rattle your body, and the simple steps that streamline the switch.

A new drug combination cuts the risk of death in people with advanced prostate cancer by 40% over eight years, according to ...

As the opioid crisis has evolved from prescription painkillers to illicit fentanyl, new data reveals that older adults are ...

What Does A Drug Interaction Checker Do? The WebMD Drug Interaction Checker lets you enter the medicines, supplements, and foods you're taking to check for potential interactions. All content has been ...

If you drink two or more diet sodas -- a day, you may be more likely to get kidney disease. In one study, diet soda-drinking women had kidneys that worked 30% less well after 20 years compared with ...

A dental crown is a tooth-shaped "cap" that is placed over a tooth -- to cover the tooth to restore its shape and size, strength, and improve its appearance. The crowns, when cemented into place, ...

Diabetes is a number of diseases that involve problems with the hormone insulin. There is no cure for diabetes. The warning signs of diabetes can be so mild that you don't notice them. That's ...

You turn off the lights and get yourself ready to snooze. Are you on your back, side, or stomach? Though there is no strong science connecting your sleep position to things like back pain, snoring, ...

A dislocated knee is when the three bones of your knee are out of place and aren’t aligned the way they should be. It can happen if the structures in your knee are abnormal. Some people are born with ...

This “good” cholesterol, called HDL, seems to go up in people who have three or more eggs a day. Of course, LDL, the “bad” type, goes up, too. But the individual pieces of each get bigger. That makes ...

When you hear the term "ringworm," do you imagine tiny worms crawling on your skin? Then you may have fallen prey to one of the many misconceptions about this common skin condition. In ...

Blood doping is an illicit method of improving athletic performance by artificially boosting the blood's ability to bring more oxygen to muscles. In many cases, blood doping increases the amount of ...