Risk factors are things that raise your chances of getting a disease. For each person, there’s a mix of lifestyle, biological and genetic factors that play a part in melanoma risk. Exposure to ...

When designing work procedures to prevent musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risks, most of the focus is on physical risk factors such as posture, force and repetition. However, non-physical risk factors ...

A new study identifying 56 non-clinical risk factors associated with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), spanning lifestyle, physical measures, psychosocial factors, socioeconomic status, and the local ...

Risk factors are things that raise your chances of getting a disease. For each person, there’s a mix of genetic, biological and lifestyle factors that play a part in cancer risk. When it comes to ...

But the good news is there are ways to reduce your risk.

Hypertension is a very common condition, affecting about half of all adults in the U.S. But it doesn’t always have symptoms, so about one in three people don’t know they have it. Hypertension develops ...

What you need to know Falls are common in older people, and fall related injuries are a substantial cause of morbidity and ...

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive loss of dopamine-producing nerve cells in the brain, leading to motor slowing, gait and balance problems ...

Untreated vision loss and high LDL cholesterol have been added as two new potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia in a report released Wednesday by the Lancet Commission. These new additions ...

Spring weather means more time outside—and more encounters with snakes in Central Texas. Baylor Scott & White trauma injury prevention specialist Melissa Dorsch explains why snake bites spike this ...

Climate change, aging populations, and antimicrobial resistance will reshape infection prevention, requiring cross sector collaboration, better data systems, and targeted vaccination by 2040.