With vaccines and regular screening, cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers.

Yet women living in rural areas of the United States have a 25% higher rate of cervical cancer – and a 42% higher rate of death from the disease compared to urban women.

In Colorado, rural counties such as Prowers, Moffat and ...Read more

Mountains of scientific evidence support both the negative and positive effects of our eating habits on our health. Research shows that a healthy diet can help those suffering from chronic health conditions like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.

This is where “food is medicine” comes in. Food is medicine, ...Read more

Christina Applegate has a theory about why she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis: She's been poisoned.

The "Married With Children" and "Dead to Me" star has been inundated with well-intentioned suggestions following the revelation of her misdiagnosis, but one stood out, Applegate recounted on the Tuesday episode of her "Messy" podcast ...Read more

Ebola remains out of control in the Democratic Republic of Congo six months after the outbreak was declared, with frontline workers going unpaid and health facilities lacking basic supplies despite hundreds of millions of dollars mobilized for the response, a medical aid group said.

“Despite the vast amounts of money provided for the response...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm finishing up treatment for lymphoma. I'm wondering what my life will be like after cancer. I don't know what the next steps will be. Can you help?

ANSWER: Finishing lymphoma cancer treatment is a major milestone, but the transition into survivorship can be challenging. During treatment, you have a routine. You may have ...Read more

Eli McCreary of Omaha, Nebraska, said he had recently been diagnosed with kidney cancer when he got a call from a local hospital run by CHI Health. He said he was informed that he wasn’t insured anymore under Medicaid — and that the hospital would cancel his appointments unless he paid out-of-pocket.

McCreary, who was 64 at the time, said ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A resident of a Two Harbors, Minnesota, nursing home received the wrong medication dose 39 times in a row last spring, resulting in emergency hospitalization for seizures the drugs were supposed to prevent.

A federal investigation of Waterview Shores found other medication errors and documented the mistakes, resulting in a $203,...Read more

Before this spring, Salt Lake City-based pediatrician Trahern W. Jones had never seen a case of measles in person.

Then he saw a few in one week. One of his patients had a rash and fever that were subsiding, but breathing was a struggle. Because of a swollen airway, the toddler was making a high-pitched squeaking sound, a tell-tale sign of ...Read more

One person has died in an E. coli outbreak that spread at a pumpkin farm in San Luis Obispo County last month, health officials confirmed Tuesday.

The outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli left more than a dozen people who visited the popular Brookshire Farms in late October with symptoms, including three children reportedly put in ...Read more

All people carry differences in their DNA that could affect how they respond to medication, according to my team’s newly published research. Moreover, 1 in 4 already take a medication their body processes differently because of their genetics.

Clinicians often take a trial and error approach to prescriptions. Two people take the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced Wednesday he plans to serve as the top Republican on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee when Democrats take control of Congress next year.

The move clears the way for Senate Ethics Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla., to use his seniority to ascend to ranking Republican on the ...Read more

Not many 22-year-olds share DJ Mikunda’s enthusiasm for health insurance coverage.

“You know what sounds like a good Friday night? It’s looking at health insurance,” he joked.

But Mikunda has a reason to be eager. He has gone without coverage since he left home and started working in 2023. He’s now a manager at a gas station in St. ...Read more

Turning 50 often brings shifting eyesight and rising healthcare expenses, yet original Medicare leaves older Americans completely on their own for routine vision care, glasses and contact lenses.

In a recent Retirement Coaches Association survey of 115 professional retirement coaches conducted in partnership with VSP Individual Vision Plans, 96...Read more

There’s nothing like the festive spread of beloved holiday meals to heighten the season’s celebratory gatherings. If you’re looking to enhance this year’s menu, try increasing the number of plant-based foods. Including more plant foods, like vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, beans, lentils and whole grains, is a great way to make a meal ...Read more

Ask ChatGPT, Gemini or another artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot a medical question, and you may be amazed at how fast it comes up with a detailed answer. Depending on the prompts you give it, the answer can be tailored for your needs. But be careful if you want to put this technology to use.

Can AI answer medical questions?

While AI in ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A friend just underwent a rotator cuff repair and is recovering well. But I was wondering, what if you get to a point where repairing the tear is no longer an option? Is there anything else that can help with pain and improve shoulder function? And what about stem cells or this platelet-rich plasma I hear about?

ANSWER: ...Read more

GLP-1 drugs must now carry a warning label about a potential link to a rare eye condition that can result in vision loss, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Nov. 9. 2026. The eye condition is called non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION, and doctors often refer to it as a stroke of the eye.

I am a ...Read more

Veteran military medics could soon administer medications to patients at certain Massachusetts hospitals under a proposal by Gov. Maura Healey.

On the eve of Veterans Day, the governor revealed plans to advance new regulations to create a pathway for military medics to work in civilian healthcare settings, applying their training and experience...Read more

The U.S. is expected to lose its measles-free status this week as the Pan American Health Organization meets to review measles outbreaks in the Western Hemisphere.

Measles elimination means a country has not had a continuous, locally transmitted outbreak for at least 12 months. The United States is experiencing multiple measles outbreaks, ...Read more

A family of five is exposed to the flu virus, but only two of them get sick. A lifelong chain-smoker lives 100 years, while a professional athlete in their prime dies of an unexpected heart attack. A drug fails a clinical trial due to harmful side effects in a subset of patients despite showing good results in others.

Could any of ...Read more