Some medicines affect your ability to sweat, stay hydrated, or even to notice if you're overheating. Doctors say keep taking them, but make sure to keep yourself cool.

For more than two decades, the community health worker has supported hundreds of families throughout southeast Los Angeles by ...

The FDA issued a Class I warning after California-based Jalux Americas, Inc. recalled cookie products because of potential undeclared allergens ...

A powerful earthquake off Russia's east coast has triggered evacuations throughout the Pacific, from Japan to Peru. The US states of Hawaii and California are also impacted by the waves. DW has the ...

Living through the pandemic aged our brains faster — even among people who never became sick with COVID-19, according to a ...

The rise in COVID-19 infections comes as providers wrestle with how to navigate shifted federal vaccine recommendations.

A 2024 report by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) found that East Palo Alto, a historically disadvantaged and majority-minority community, is also at high risk ...

The impact of President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," which is expected to strip millions of Americans of their health insurance, could be particularly stark in rural areas like Mendocino ...

Some studies have looked at the impact of hormonal birth control on VO2 max —a measure of how much oxygen you use during ...

Levin held a press conference on Tuesday to speak out against cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs.

CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and repeated head injuries are likely the cause of it, according to the Mayo Clinic. CTE permanently destroys nerve cells in the brain, worsens over ...

Among adolescents with overweight or obesity, prediabetes is more than twice as common in Asian and Pacific Islander ...