Alopecia areata is the condition affecting Jada Pinkett Smith, who found herself at the center of the Will Smith-Chris Rock conflict at the Oscars ceremony March 27. Dr. Brett King answers FAQs about the causes, severity, challenges, treatments and more.
The highly contagious Omicron subvariant BA.2 is now the dominant strain of Covid-19 in the United States, causing an estimated 54.9% of all new Covid-19 infections last week, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized additional booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines for adults 50 and older -- and now, many people in that group are wondering whether to get that dose now or later.
The US Food and Drug Administration has expanded the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines to allow adults 50 and older to get a second booster as early as four months after their first booster dose of any Covid-19 vaccine.
First, it was a smaller hospital with fewer than 200 beds in Farmington, New Mexico, where the high desert borders the Navajo Nation. Then, it was a massive university hospital in bustling Salt Lake City, Utah, with about 800 staffed beds.
Metformin use by men in the three-month period before they conceived a child was linked to a 40% higher risk of birth defects in the offspring, according to a study published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
Prediabetes is an underdiagnosed condition that can increase risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke -- and the condition has more than doubled among America's youth in the past 20 years, according to a new study published Monday.
The feeling of nostalgia is known to have some psychological and emotional benefits. New research shows that looking at nostalgic photos can reduce pain perception.
Two years into the pandemic, scientists and physicians are shifting their attention to the long-term consequences of a Covid-19 infection, termed "long Covid." Now, two studies add diabetes to the list of possible long Covid outcomes.
Despite increased public awareness, research advances, and wider insurance coverage for autism therapies, children often wait months — in some cases more than a year — to get an autism diagnosis and begin intervention services.
Crushes are important milestones in the life of preadolescent children that parents and caregivers should be respectfully discussing with them. These infatuations help kids explore romantic feelings before they are ready for romantic relationships.
Potatoes seem designed to appeal to everyone -- whether they are baked, fried, roasted, mashed, creamy, crunchy or salty. March is a particularly apt month to celebrate the humble potato and its cohort, the sweet potato.
Covid-19 cases in the United States have fallen more than 95% from their peak in January, and on Friday, Hawaii will become the last state to roll back its indoor mask mandate. Testing has slowed, and states are scaling back on reporting surveillance data, too.
Forty-five percent of the world's population is trying to shed a few pounds, according to a 2020 Ipsos poll. And they prefer to do it by exercising more and eating better, not by dieting. That's essentially the well-known "calories in, calories out" method, where you try to burn more calories than you take in. There is just one problem: Nailing down your calorie burn is harder than you may think.
Contrary to some medical advice, drinking coffee might actually protect your heart instead of causing or worsening heart problems, according to new research.
