Dylan Scott

Statins are one of modern medicine’s miracles. For every 10,000 people who take these cholesterol-lowering drugs, 1,000 will avoid major cardiovascular events. When you consider that cardiovascular...

The Olympics offer a fascinating window into the diets and workout routines of some of the world’s finest athletes, and it would be easy to feel inadequate in the face of these examples of the huma...

An elixir for keeping our brains and bodies younger may already be sitting on pharmacy shelves across the United States — if only we’d take advantage of it. I’m talking about the shingles vaccine. ...

If there is one universal treatment that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again sees for all of the country’s medical problems, it’s food.   Borrowing a phrase that has become ubiquitou...

You’ve probably heard microplastics are everywhere — in our brains, in our hearts, in possibly every single man on earth’s testicles. Studies published in major medical journals have reported that ...

How much alcohol should you drink? The US government now vaguely, in effect, says just don’t drink too much. And what qualifies as too much? Well, that’s up to you. As part of the new federal dieta...

Inflammation is on everybody’s minds these days, and it seems like wherever you look, someone is telling you how to reduce your inflammation, from influencers on your TikTok feed or Instagram reels...

Dr. Andrew Carroll, a family physician in Chandler, Arizona, a suburb outside of Phoenix, first arrived there in 2000, the same year the United States declared measles had been eradicated. Now, 25 ...

Health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are set to soar after Congress failed Thursday to pass a last-minute plan to avert the rate hikes.  As many as four million peopl...

The federal government is ending its recommendation that every infant receive a hepatitis B vaccination at birth, the most substantive change to the childhood immunization schedule yet under US Hea...

This winter was already shaping up to be one of the strangest cold and flu seasons in recent memory.  With Robert F. Kennedy at the helm of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the feder...

We’re used to seeing Serena Williams on our TVs, muscles flexing, smashing a tennis ball past her opponent. But in a recent 30-second commercial, Williams traded the racket for a GLP-1 drug injecto...