Monitor your average blood sugar over a three-month period via an A1c test. The results shown on an A1c chart indicate normal blood sugar under 5.7%; higher numbers indicate prediabetes or diabetes.

Cortisol levels need to be kept in check to ward off chronic inflammation, which is linked to a host of long-term health problems. Here’s how. If there’s a current health villain, it’s cortisol. On ...

Lake Mead water levels could see a welcome boost in the months ahead as emerging El Niño conditions strengthen in the Pacific, a shift forecasters say may steer more storms toward the drought‑strained ...

Around the world, sea levels are rising. But, strangely, in Greenland, they're actually forecast to fall in the coming decades. In a new study, a team led by geophysicist Lauren Lewright at Columbia ...