Health Talk

High blood pressure can put you at greater risk of heart attack, stroke and other life-threatening complications. So, what can you do to stop prehypertension from becoming full-on hypertension? Let’s find out!

You’re pregnant! Congrats! You might be feeling excitement, anxiety, joy, trepidation or all of the above. That’s normal. Use this timeline to help you stay on top of important health-related tasks and milestones.

As children get back together, it’s very easy for them to start transmitting all kinds of infections and viruses to each other that they hadn’t been sharing over the summer. We have four ways to help you tell the difference between allergies, RSV and other infections such as a cold, the flu or COVID-19:

Food poisoning, or more accurately foodborne illness, affects 48 million people in the United States and causes 128,000 people to be hospitalized annually. So what causes food poisoning, and how can you prevent it?

If your joints hurt, you probably want to know why and what can be done to alleviate your pain. Here are the seven most common causes of joint pain and how they are treated.

About 20 percent of adults have varicose veins, and most everyone has a spider vein or two. While you may not like the way they look, these bluish, lumpy intrusions are usually harmless. However, for some people, they can be painful and dangerous. Here’s what to know about leg veins.

June is Men’s Health Month, and as we wrap up the month, we couldn’t help but wonder about the ways that COVD-19 has affected men specifically. So we spoke to Dr. Thaddeus West, primary care physician at UNC Internal Medicine at Goldsboro, to gain a better understanding.

Smoking cigarettes has long been symbolic of teenage rebellion. But today, kids are more likely to be caught in a fog of vapor than a cloud of smoke. In fact, more than 1 in 4 high school students use e-cigarettes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).