Many drug addicts take not only one substance but rather several. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen have investigated the role that genes and the environment ...

A 45-year-old asymptomatic woman with hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, obesity, a history of smoking, and a family history of myocardial infarction presents for a complete physical examination. Her ...

Hypertension affects more than one-third of the global adult population and is a leading contributor to early death from cardiovascular and other chronic diseases. While treatments for high blood ...

The risk of multiple primary cancers is increasing due to increasing numbers of survivors, long-term side effects of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy, increased diagnostic sensitivity, and ...