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Intermediate-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis who receive minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement, known as TAVR, have similar rates of death and disabling strokes after two years compared with...

A new low-dose vaginal estrogen capsule may help relieve symptoms of menopausal vulvar and vaginal atrophy, including dyspareunia (pain during sex), new industry-sponsored research reports.

As skin tans, it darkens to protect itself against harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation, but the increasing pigment blocks vitamin D synthesis, limiting the skin's ability to produce more vitamin D, a new study from finds.

A single dose of oxytocin nasal spray, known to reduce food intake, decreases impulsive behavior in overweight and obese men.

Researchers are exploring one possible physiologic explanation of why prior studies have demonstrated a higher risk of breast cancer in women who experience high levels of illumination at night.

Anti-Mullerian hormone blood levels may provide a useful biomarker for the diagnosis and treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome in obese adolescent girls, new research suggests.

Steroid medications inhibit the activity of brown fat, which is the 'good,' calorie-burning fat humans and animals have, researchers have discovered.

In young female athletes who stop having their menstrual periods because of excessive exercise, estrogen replacement appears to improve their memory, a new study finds.

In older people, higher dietary calcium intake may lower the risk of cardiovascular disease, but not of stroke and fracture, new research suggests.

People with high levels of good cholesterol, or high-density lipoprotein, are not as safe from heart disease when high levels of a newly identified biomarker of inflammation in the arteries are also found in the bloodstr...

A new study found that effectively treating depression can reduce a patient's chance of having a stroke, heart failure, a heart attack or death.

Low levels of total vitamin D and bioavailable vitamin D can help predict a person's risk of major adverse cardiovascular events such as a heart attack, stroke, heart failure or death.

A safe, new, minimally invasive treatment, developed by interventional radiologists, led to sustained weight loss in severely obese people.

We often think of consciousness as binary: you're either fully aware of something, or you're not. Yet according to a team of cognitive neuroscientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, conscious awareness i...

(The Endocrine Society) Despite guidelines that advocate the use of weight loss medications to treat obesity, and the availability of FDA approved medications, very few patients use this treatment option, a new study sug...

(The Endocrine Society) In obese middle-aged men, losing weight while dieting normally depletes both fat and muscle. But adding testosterone treatment may help them lose only fat and retain their muscle, new research sug...