Jul. 3, 2025 -- How does oral health affect your entire body? What is the oral microbiome, and how can oral bacteria trigger inflammation beyond your mouth? In this episode, we spoke to Nammy Patel, ...

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered Podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD's Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. For so many of us, especially ...

Dec. 26, 2024 -- How does spirituality shape our emotional resilience, mental well-being, and physical health? And how can we practice strategies for integrating spirituality into daily life? In this ...

Sept. 4, 2025 -- Medications are designed to work best when stored at the right temperature, but heat can affect their potency and even increase health risks. How exactly can heat compromise the ...

WebMD: Health disparities is a relatively new field. What’s its focus and purpose? Pérez-Stable: In health outcomes, poor people do worse than people with more resources. It was observed 40 years ago ...

Jan. 23, 2025 -- Aging is a natural process, but how do we differentiate between normal changes and accelerated aging? What are the critical periods in life when significant health changes occur? Why ...

During his freshman year at Duke University, a persistent headache sent Josh Sommer on a diagnostic journey. The reveal: a tumor right below his pituitary gland in front of his brainstem. Called a ...

Sickle cell disease is an inherited red blood cell disorder that affects the oxygen-carrying proteins (hemoglobin) in red blood cells, contorting them into a crescent moon shape, making movement ...