On August 22, 1963, Joe Walker climbed into the X-15 for what was meant to be another controlled high-altitude test. The rocket plane was already the fastest aircraft ever built, pushing speeds and ...

Sometimes, downing an energy drink can feel like refueling your battery. But with too much, that jolt can turn into a catastrophic surge that fries the wiring and blows a fuse. That was the ...

Hot off the trail of National Breast Cancer Month in October, one company is trying to ease the detection of the disease that has been projected to impact at least 316,950 women across the country in ...

Hims & Hers Health, Inc. (NYSE: HIMS) on Wednesday agreed to acquire YourBio Health, Inc., a Boston-based provider of capillary whole blood sampling technology. YourBio Health develops technologies ...

A speedy new scan could improve how millions of people with high blood pressure are treated, suggests a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers. About a quarter of people with ...

Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) is an early warning sign of diabetes. It causes symptoms like excessive thirst and hunger, increased urination, and fatigue. Symptoms develop gradually and may go ...

Global rates of hypertension, or high blood pressure, in childhood and adolescence have nearly doubled since 2000, putting more kids at risk for poor health later in life. “In 2000, about 3.4% of boys ...

TEXAS – A new wave of blood tests is changing how doctors detect cancer. These tests can find signs of cancer early, sometimes before symptoms appear, giving patients a better chance at successful ...

"No cancer signal detected." The blood test results popped up in my online health portal without much fanfare. A doctor would chat about them with me later, congratulating me on the "phew"-worthy ...

A pharmaceutical company has issued a voluntary recall for more than a half-million bottles of blood pressure medication after tests showed the capsules had high levels of potentially cancer-causing ...

CHARLOTTE — At just 16 years old, Jeremiah Currie was facing the same health challenges as his father — high blood pressure and high cholesterol. When the Currie family found out about his health ...

A blood-based biomarker test, PancreaSure, demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity in differentiating patients with early-stage pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) from control individuals ...