A woman in her 40s was diagnosed with stage 3b colorectal cancer seven months after giving birth. She initially mistook the symptoms for hemorrhoids.

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death in the United States, with an alarming rise in the proportion of young adults experiencing cardiovascular events. Many adolescents enter ...

Colon cancer is now the deadliest cancer for people under 50, and researchers are scrambling to understand why rectal cases are driving the trend.

You may not have celiac disease — an autoimmune disorder triggered by consuming the gluten protein in wheat, barley, and rye — but it’s possible you have gluten intolerance. Gluten intolerance can ...

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The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) on Friday said its researchers have found that too much mucus can weaken the lungs' defences, which can make people more prone to allergy attacks ...

The airways of our lungs have a naturally engineered defence mechanism that gets activated when any foreign material, even microscopic, enters the airways by secreting a fluid called mucus to trap it.