Standing desks may not improve the health risks associated with sitting at your desk all day, a new study has found.

You may have heard that sitting is the new smoking—and while the immediate physical impacts aren’t exactly the same, their effect on your long-term health, including your heart, show remarkable similarities.

A large new study found that standing for more than two hours a day doesn’t protect against the cardiovascular risks of too much sitting.

In today’s health headlines, signs that sexually transmitted infections are declining. Could standing desks not be a great alternative to sitting? And if you’ve been under the weather, how to know when your symptoms warrant a trip to the emergency room?

Standing desks became popular thanks to phrases like “sitting is the new smoking,” which highlighted the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle.