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Lucas Ninno/Getty Images Once considered a disease of the affluent, hypertension now affects a third of all adults. The WHO wants nations to get organized to combat it. The World Health Organization (WHO) is taking on the world’s worst killer, laying out its first plan to conquer hypertension—a level of high blood pressure that affects one in every three…

Lucas Ninno/Getty Images Once considered a disease of the affluent, hypertension now affects a third of all adults. The WHO wants nations to get organized to combat it. The World Health Organizatio…

Many children suffer grave emotional problems from living with a self-absorbed parent. The child is disregarded and used as an extension of the parent. Often, this means the child’s physical wants …

The Food and Drug Administration should authorize a second “booster” dose of Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ, +0.74% COVID-19 vaccine for adults who were initially vaccinated with this vaccine, accordi…

“When we face a stressor, we tend to think more about the future,” says Brad Koontz, a financial psychologist and professor at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. Young adults’ growing openness to …

© Shutterstock Dyslexia is a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read. It is a common condition that also causes problems with writing and spelling. According to figures published by the Reading Well, around 30 million adults in the United States are dyslexic. A further six million in the United Kingdom…

Even dim light can disrupt sleep, raising the risk of serious health issues in older adults, a new study found. Dogs and cats who share their human’s bed tend to have a “higher trust le…

Polarized politics and a growing awareness of how difficult relationships can impact our mental health are fueling family estrangement, say psychologists. It was a heated Skype conversation about race relations that led Scott to cut off all contact with his parents in 2019. His mother was angry he’d supported a civil rights activist on social media, he says; she said “a lot of really awful racist things”, while his seven-year-old son was in earshot.

Almost a third of adult single men live with a parent. Single men are much more likely to be unemployed, financially fragile and to lack a college degree than those with a partner.

Recovering from trauma is hard no matter when it happens. However, if adversity happens during childhood, it can be especially hard to overcome. Unlike adults, children have very little control ove…