When you think of calcium in relation to your health, you likely think of increasing your dairy intake for your bones and muscles and perhaps not much beyond that. But how do you actually know the ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 81-year-old man (5 feet, 2 inches tall at 122 pounds) in good health, except that I have Type 2 diabetes. My A1C level has been in the range of 6.3% to 6.8% for the past five ...

Medically reviewed by Patricia Mikula, PharmD Key Takeaways Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium, and levels often drop ...

Millions of Americans take a daily vitamin, assuming it is doing something. That assumption is not always correct. The gap ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 62-year-old white male who is 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighs 205 pounds. I have diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I was recently diagnosed with “moderate to ...

The latest cholesterol guidelines include three new screening tests: coronary artery calcium, lipoprotein (a), and ...

Doctors are already pretty good at predicting heart disease risk among healthy people, but a new study shows they could more accurately identify those at highest risk by adding a coronary artery ...

The Lawhuns hope their story encourages others to ask about calcium score screenings.

Here are five tests worth asking your doctor about at your next visit. The complete blood count, or CBC, measures red blood ...

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 81-year-old man (5 feet, 2 inches tall at 122 pounds) in good health, except that I have Type 2 diabetes. My A1C level has been in the range of 6.3% to 6.8% for the past five ...

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