For decades, the egg sat at the center of one of the most consequential nutrition mistakes in American medical history. Doctors advised patients to limit them, dining halls pulled them from buffets, ...

Most people who get their cholesterol checked never learn about lipoprotein(a). The particle does not appear on a standard lipid panel. Statins do not lower it. And until recently, even cardiologists ...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture released the ...

The recently released 2025-2030 dietary guidelines for Americans mark a long-overdue reset in federal nutrition advice.

My patients are replacing olive oil with beef tallow, even if they don't tell me during cardiac rehab,” writes a clinical ...

Doctors should consider treating high cholesterol much earlier and more aggressively than they have in the past, according to a new perspective by Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian and ...

Here’s a recap of the major changes, with insights from experts on where the changes align with mainstream nutrition science and where they veer from it. New federal dietary guidelines emphasize ...

National Geographic senior editor Sarah Gibbens spent a week on the planetary health diet—developed by scientists to curb ...

Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards. A staffing shortage is making it difficult for the US National Institutes ...

Doctors should consider treating high cholesterol much earlier and more aggressively than they have in the past, according to a new perspective by Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Yale ...

Researchers analyzing over 20,000 patients found that very high levels of the inherited cholesterol particle Lp(a) dramatically raise the risk of stroke, cardiovascular death, and major heart ...