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Best walking treadmills 2024
These are the best walking treadmills you can buy in every category, from Mobvoi Home Treadmill to Bluefin Fitness Task 2.0 Treadmill.
Cannabis use linked to head and neck cancer risk
A new study that looked at 20 years of medical data from millions of people found a link between cannabis use and specific cancers.
Heart attacks fell dramatically during the pandemic — and they're still dropping
Better prevention is driving down heart-attack rates in the U.S., but the sharp drops seen at the height of the pandemic were likely caused by people avoiding medical care.
Newborns are colonized with antibiotic resistant bacteria
Babies in Nigeria are testing positive for bacteria resistant to colistin, though it's not clear whether they pick it up in utero, from their mothers, or from somewhere in the hospital.
6 ways an athlete's brain differs from an average person's
Sports mastery is about much more than physical capability — it shapes the brain, too.
What happens when you 'hit the wall'?
Experts tell Live Science what it means to "hit the wall" while exercising and how to avoid it.
Double mastectomies don't increase cancer survival, study suggests
Other types of surgery besides double mastectomies are equally good at lowering death rates in women with cancer in one breast.
Some people recover from ALS — now, we might know why
A rare gene variant may explain why a subset of patients with ALS recover from the deadly disease.
Bacteria that switch antibiotic resistance on and off are going undetected. Microbiologist Karin Hjort is on a mission to find out how they do it.
Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections.
