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Should you check your blood pressure at home?

High blood pressure is something that’s mentioned so often—and so casually—on television shows and in books, that it’s easy to

A rare syndrome has been observed in people following vaccination against Covid-19. This involves thrombosis at unusual sites in the

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday defended the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for

Heart failure (HF) – when the heart can’t pump enough blood and oxygen through the body—affects approximately 6.2 million adults

By removing “race correction” from the interpretation of pulmonary function test (PFT) results, Black individuals were shown to have a

Indigenous peoples in Canada have higher rates of death and complications after surgery and lower rates of surgeries than other

Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a rare lung disease that causes shortness of breath and low oxygen levels because

For children, pandemic norms have meant virtual school, holidays over Zoom and for some, even seeing the doctor from their

Research led by scientists at Children’s Cancer Institute and published this week in the international journal, Clinical Cancer Research, has found

Boys born weighing less than a kilogram are miracles, but they do not age as well as the girls, according