In the United States, income inequality has steadily increased over the last several decades. Given widening inequities, health care leaders have been concerned about the health outcomes of older Americans who experience poverty, particularly because prior studies have shown a strong link between socioeconomic status and health.
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The increase in diet-related illness has led to a high burden of costs for society. However, German policymakers, in comparison with their international counterparts, have so far been reluctant to make political interventions that support healthy eating habits among its citizens.
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Hip dysplasia, common in both dogs and humans, and associated osteoarthritis are complex disorders influenced by a multitude of genes.
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For people who want to stop drinking, the world’s oldest alcohol support group is still the best way, a new review concludes.

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A biotech meeting at a hotel in downtown Boston appears to be the source of a cluster of the coronavirus in the U.S.—and a warning for employers who are still holding big gatherings as the outbreak spreads.
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A U.S. scientist is helping public health authorities understand and track the coronavirus, turning up clues about how it arrived and spread through Washington state and beyond, including potentially seeding an outbreak on the Grand Princess cruise ship.
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The World Health Organization called the new coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on Wednesday, issuing a grim warning that the global spread and severity of the illness was due to “alarming levels of inaction”.
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The United States is weighing a ban on travelers from Europe to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a senior US official said Wednesday.
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President Donald Trump said he will make a primetime address Wednesday on measures to confront the growing health and economic challenges to the United States from the novel coronavirus.
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The new coronavirus outbreak is now a pandemic. So what does that mean?
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