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Key Takeaways: June is Men’s Health Month, and PSA screening — the prostate-specific antigen blood test — remains the most argued-about topic in primary care.[…]

Key Takeaways: June is also Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, and the most-studied genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s is apolipoprotein E. In the landmark[…]

Key Takeaways: June is PTSD Awareness Month, and one of the most studied non-pharmacologic tools for traumatic stress is also one of the simplest. In[…]

Summer ultraviolet exposure peaks between roughly ten in the morning and four in the afternoon, and the damage it does to skin is not cosmetic[…]

Patients sometimes present with classic exertional chest pain, abnormal stress testing, or even troponin-positive events, and then return from coronary angiography with the news that[…]

The gut-brain axis is a continuously active bidirectional communication system between the central nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract, and the microbial community living in[…]

As temperatures climb across the Sunbelt, an under-recognized cardiovascular intervention becomes available for free: deliberate heat acclimation. The body’s response to repeated heat exposure is[…]

Allostasis is the physiologic process by which the body changes set points to meet acute demand — heart rate rises during a sprint, blood pressure[…]

Plant sterols and stanols are structural cousins of cholesterol. Their carbon skeletons are nearly identical, differing only by a small side group, which means they[…]

Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in adults, and its central clinical danger is silent. When the atria fibrillate, coordinated mechanical contraction[…]