When it comes to measuring your health status or fitness level, there’s no shortage of metrics out there, which makes ...

Move over, BMI. It’s time to get SAD. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like ...

Mayo Clinic research identified a powerful new way to improve the prediction of a patient's long-term cardiovascular disease risk by enhancing a routinely performed imaging test with artificial ...

Share on Pinterest Using routine scans, AI could measure heart fat to help better predict cardiovascular disease risk. Image credit: Santi Nuñez/Stocksy A new study suggests that AI can measure heart ...

It’s the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticised again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group of experts is denouncing it as a diagnostic tool for obesity. They say ...

New findings from European and U.S. researchers spotlight two underestimated cardiovascular threats: diets high in ultra-processed foods and excess fat surrounding the heart. A European Society of ...

When you think about the objectively healthy foods that are part of a good diet, you’ll come up with things like lean meats ...