As a public health scientist, I have learned that firm prescriptions rarely capture life’s complexity,” Robert M. Kaplan ...

Based on the PREVENT risk calculator, researchers developed age- and sex-specific percentiles for 30-year absolute risk estimates for cardiovascular disease. Framing risk relative to peers by age and ...

A newer tool used to assess cardiovascular disease risk comes with both answers…and some questions. “These results were not surprising to us,” investigators Adam Bress, PharmD, MS, and Catherine ...

Given the latest market run, I am getting a lot of questions about chasing returns and individuals comparing themselves to the S&P 500 index. The flaw of human nature is that whatever we have is ...

Heavy drinking is clearly bad for your health. But it’s long been questioned whether moderate drinking is also risky—and, if so, how risky, exactly. Health researchers have consistently found links ...

Researchers provided comprehensive evidence of the benefits of statin use in elderly patients, addressing longstanding uncertainties. The robust evidence demonstrated that continuous statin therapy ...

Last week I completed my first self-supported, multi-stage, ultra-marathon “race” in Lapland, above the Arctic Circle. After more than 50 previous ultras, none of which have lasted more than a couple ...