Sudden Death and the 100,000 km of Blood Vessels

Many people who die suddenly had quietly wrecked the longest organ in their body — long before that

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Your Gut Makes Most of Your 'Happy Hormone'

Some people are born "big-hearted": nothing rattles them, they fall asleep the second thei

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5 'Healthy' Whole Grains That Spike Blood Sugar

Walk into the kitchen of any older relative with high blood sugar and you will find the same stash:

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Uric Acid Crystals: Nine Shapes Under the Microscope

Your body can crystallize into flowers. Petal-shaped, rhomboid, hexagonal, dumbbell, drum, cube — th

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Corn Peptide Liver Fix May Actually Age You

A grain peptide that "protects the liver" and speeds up alcohol clearance sounds like a gi

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Your Kidneys Are a Selective Filter You Can Ruin

Someone in a group chat once argued with the author about why dialysis patients develop heart failur

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Testicular Torsion: The Six-Hour Clock Ticks at Home

"The golden six hours" — the phrase sounds like you have six usable hours once you reach t

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Your Gut Is a Second Brain. It Also Votes on What You Eat

At ten at night, you open the food-delivery app again. You're not hungry. You just crave somethi

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Prostate Calcification: What the Blip Really Means

The report says: "Punctate hyperechoic foci in the prostate, suggestive of calcification."

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A Daily Bubble Tea Turned This Teen's Neck Black

For nearly a year, a 17-year-old high school student in Hangzhou lived with an embarrassing problem:

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