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Smoking is a habit that can have devastating effects on your health. Not only does it increase your risk of respiratory diseases and heart problems, but it is also strongly linked to various types of cancer. In fact, smoking is the leading cause of preventable...

It used to be thought that the more the surgeon cut from a woman’s breast, the more likely she was to survive breast cancer. By the time surgery was over, a woman with a small tumor in one breast would have lost her breast, the chest muscles underneath...

For years, people thought that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was a problem that only kids had. It was marked by loud, restless boys who couldn’t sit quietly in class. Girls and women were rarely present in that photograph. Today, that...

Although High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease are two separate health conditions, there is a direct link between them. As it turns out, when your blood pressure is high, your blood vessels become constricted and narrow, which weakens and damages them...