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Many teenagers enter adulthood with significant risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood is a key time to address these risk factors and reduce the ...

In addition to causing several types of cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV) appears to bring a significantly increased risk of ...

Critics say a new, broader definition of high-risk plaque opens the door to more tests, diagnoses, and invasive procedures, steering us down a potentially harmful path.

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.