Recent studies show that coffee consumption’s role in gastrointestinal disorders, from GERD to cancer, is nuanced, ...

Norovirus, which is most often spread through contaminated food or water, has been making its rounds again during the winter season. While the symptoms can hit hard and fast, the small silver lining ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Black mold exposure may cause symptoms such as wheezing, sore throat, and stuffy nose. Asthma, allergies, or weak immunity can increase your risk of more severe symptoms. It's important to get medical ...

Lupita Nyong’o marked her birthday with a different kind of Instagram post on Sunday—one that highlighted not her age but the number of fibroids (a.k.a. usually non-cancerous uterine tumors) she has ...

In the United States, some vitamin deficiencies are more common than others (like vitamin D, for example). One that lands on the rarer end of the spectrum is a deficiency in vitamin B2, or riboflavin.

More than 30 rare muscular dystrophy types cause progressive muscle weakness from inherited gene mutations. Combined, they affect about 1 in 5,000 to 8,000 people. Common subtypes vary by age of onset ...