A major Lancet Commission report warns that obesity, inequality, nuclear war and the misuse of artificial intelligence could cost billions of years of healthy life by the end of the century. Researchers say the future is not predetermined and that coordinated action can prevent the worst outcomes.
The field can command six-figure salaries, but understaffing and persistent violence are pushing nurses off the front lines
Greece has become good at finding breast cancer early. It has yet, say doctors, patients and charities, to build a system that carries a woman to recovery without her organising, and often paying for, much of it herself.
Like breath strips, they dissolve on the tongue, claiming a faster way to better sleep, healthier skin and other benefits
From longevity programs costing thousands of euros to IV treatments delivered to yachts and villas, Greece is seeing a rapidly expanding wellness market operating in a regulatory gray area
A simple squeeze can give you information about your muscle strength and future health risks
Many are flexing gleefully, including Matt Damon’s double in ‘The Odyssey’ Devyn Dalton
The real opportunity is pill-form peptides that could hit big pharma’s most profitable franchises
Lunch-hour nose jobs and low-intervention brow and arm lifts trade dramatic results for minimal anesthesia and quicker recoveries. Here’s what to know.
Injectables, "quantum biofeedback," and devices with no clear legal framework: key findings emerge from the first inspections as joint teams carry out site visits
The drinks are a new target for schools, which say they are a distraction and a threat to student health
Cricket, long regarded in the U.K. as the game of the upper classes, is experiencing a revival—without some of its famously haughty traditions
Trained on millions of ECGs, the technology could help doctors fast-track high-risk patients toward earlier treatment
Regulators authorized LifeVac in the U.S., but medical groups say Heimlich and back blows are still the best methods
Ancient Indonesian jamu, a herbal elixir of turmeric and ginger, is reviving in cafés from Jakarta to New York.
More than 900 people in Greece live with the inherited disease, while new treatments have improved outcomes for many patients but have not provided a cure
Summer’s fruits and vegetables can do more than add color and flavor to your plate. Packed with water, electrolytes and nutrients, they offer a delicious way to help replenish fluids during the hottest months
A new opinion from France's health and safety agency warns that atypical work hours seriously harm employees' physical and mental health
You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit
A 30-year-old man from Nepal is being treated in the ICU at Lamia General Hospital following a suspected spider bite during farm work in Amfikleia