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Scientists are developing a simple blood test to predict who is most at risk from the world’s most common inherited heart condition.Millions of people worldwide have…

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScIDay 22 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Heart of a Tarantula. This image, made by the James Webb Space…

Amy Bies was recovering in the hospital from injuries inflicted during a car accident in May 2007 when routine laboratory tests showed that her blood glucose…

December 10, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmUterine Fibroids Significantly Raise Risk of Heart DiseaseIn a new study, women diagnosed with these common growths…

Heavy consumption of energy drinks may raise the risk of heart disease and pose a serious risk of stroke, doctors have warned.Millions of people worldwide regularly…

Rachel Clarke is right to highlight the pressures on palliative care, but wrong to suggest that assisted dying debates have sidelined these concerns (As a palliative…

Crystalline forms of cholesterol (blue) in a liver cell (purple), imaged using a scanning electron microscope.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo LibraryA CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing therapy has halved people’s…

Some generations get a nationally televised car chase featuring O. J. Simpson fleeing police in a white Bronco. Others get the communal adrenaline rush of frantically…

Men may need to exercise twice as much as women to achieve the same reduction in coronary heart disease risk, according to researchers, who say healthy…

The weight-loss drug semaglutide cuts the risk of heart attack or stroke regardless of how many kilograms people lose, the largest study of its kind has…