The U.S. Census Bureau is planning to use postal carriers as census takers for a pilot program in two southern cities.

A routine blood test often brings relief. Numbers look fine, reports say “within range,” and life moves on. But health does not always follow neat columns on a lab sheet. Early metabolic trouble can ...

For years, heart health conversations have focused on familiar numbers: LDL, HDL, and triglycerides. These markers appear in almost every routine cholesterol report. Yet cardiologists say an important ...