Sonya Collins

Using artificial intelligence, doctors and researchers believe they can more quickly identify people at risk of suicide or self harm.

Unless you make all your food at home from scratch -- and even then -- processed food is practically unavoidable. But there are degrees of processing.

Researchers around the world are trying to find out what genes might play a role in someone’s COVID-19 infection and whether they have severe or mild case or no symptoms at all.

It could take generations for enough genetic change to take place to substantially weaken a coronavirus -- both the one that causes COVID-19 and other forms that were around before it.

Many people who carry the risky variants never develop the disease; and many people who have Alzheimer’s don’t carry these genes. Knowledge of your status, then, can be unnecessarily frightening or falsely comforting.

A growing body of evidence suggests that anyone who gets the virus -- from the sick and the elderly to elite athletes -- faces the risk of heart damage.

Doctors say that trial and error over the last 6 months has helped accumulate the scientific evidence of what works and what doesn’t in the treatment of COVID-19.

Understanding the pediatrician’s role.

Friendship can be a good medicine when you have ulcerative colitis. Learn how to keep your social life going when you don’t always feel like going out.

People with underlying chronic liver disease, or even risks for liver disease, should be treated similarly to other high-risk groups since an overreaction from the immune system can lead to disease progression. Learn more about the link between COVID-19 and your liver, here.