Brad W. Setser is the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His expertise includes global trade and capital flows, financial vulnerability analysis ...

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Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Hypercholesterolemia is one of the major risk factors for CHD. With the increase in aging populations and ...

The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the heart to the lower part of the body. In early fetal development, it forms from two smaller blood vessels, called the ...

It’s almost impossible to separate a single country’s politics from the interconnected world of international relations. So many of the world’s big issues – from economic crises, to war, to climate ...

Who doesn’t love the abs? Of course, I know how badly you still want to rip your shirt off and parade that enviable beach body, despite having eaten your 65th birthday cake. Yes, the preoccupation ...

However, severe stomach pain can also be due to conditions such as colon cancer, appendicitis, diverticulitis, gall bladder disease, or an aortic aneurysm. Additionally, sometimes an upset stomach can ...