Recently, a nurse told me she had to choose between paying for her husband’s surgery and putting a new roof on their home. “We’re praying for no rain,” she said. In that moment, the distance between political promises and real life collapsed.

This is what the economy feels like for millions of Americans — not a graph, not a headline,...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My neighbor is in his 60s and has spent years competing in marathons and long-distance cycling events. Despite being in excellent shape, he recently learned that he has a high coronary calcium score. I thought endurance athletes were less likely to develop heart disease? I'm in my 50s, run regularly and am training for a half-...Read more

In the weeks around the 2026 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, my phone kept buzzing with alerts about GLP-1 drugs and cancer. The headlines were everywhere – from NPR and The Washington Post to Substack and heated exchanges on social media – all circling the same claim: Ozempic might lower the risk of cancer....Read more

Millions of Americans who buy their own health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces faced a stark choice this year: pay more than twice as much to keep the same plan or go without. Many did not keep their coverage.

Federal data released on June 26, 2026, shows that marketplace enrollment fell from 21.8 ...Read more

The West Nile virus has been detected in Yuba County for the first time this year, according to a Monday news release from the Sutter-Yuba Mosquito and Vector Control District.

Two mosquito samples collected on July 7 tested positive for the virus — one from the Hallwood area east of Marysville and another from near Wheatland.

West Nile ...Read more

The L.A. County Public Health Department announced its first case of West Nile virus this year. An Antelope Valley resident has been hospitalized with a rare and serious symptom of the virus.

On Monday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health stated that the infected individual was currently hospitalized after developing West Nile ...Read more

State officials said Monday an outbreak of cyclosporiasis that has sickened more than 2,600 Michigan residents is believed to have originated with infected lettuce or salad greens.

Health experts have been working to figure out how the parasite got into food supplies since it began sickening people late last month.

Current test results point ...Read more

DETROIT — The number of cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan climbed to 2,640 as of Monday morning, an increase of over 1,000 from Friday, according to the state's health department.

Forty-four people have reportedly been hospitalized, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said.

Monday's numbers are up from 1,562 on Friday. Cases ...Read more

DETROIT — The number of cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan climbed to 2,640 as of Monday morning, an increase of over 1,000 from Friday, according to the state's health department.

Forty-four people have reportedly been hospitalized, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said.

Monday's numbers are up from 1,562 on Friday. Cases ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Funding for Defense Department medical research into traumatic brain injuries has dropped by more than three-quarters in the last three fiscal years, even as the problem continues to plague U.S. servicemembers.

At issue is the Pentagon-funded program to research detection and treatment of TBIs and to understand psychological ...Read more

One of us got a call last spring from a longtime friend. The story was familiar: two doctors, an MRI, an online AI tool, a stack of articles — and one anxious question. “Everything tells me something different. The AI says I might need surgery. What should I do?”

We believe there’s one key response to anyone in this all-too-common ...Read more

Outdoor air pollution from factories, vehicles and wildfires is harmful for kids. But the air inside homes, schools and other indoor spaces matters, too. Indoor air can carry particles and gases that irritate growing lungs and airways, making breathing problems and infections more likely. Some indoor air pollutants can even cause lasting harm to...Read more

By the time Derion Blackman collapsed in front of a Dollar General in Kissimmee, Florida, in March, he had been waiting two months to regain access to some of the vital medications he’d been taking since undergoing a heart transplant two years ago.

“He was on a nasty, dirty ground in front of a store,” recalled Sonja Smith, who is enraged...Read more

A U.S. humanitarian worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola and will be sent to Europe for treatment, the religious humanitarian aid group Samaritan’s Purse said Saturday.

The person has worked with the group’s disaster response team for 15 years and has been in Congo for the past month, the group said in a...Read more

Fifteen states on Friday sued the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding.

The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle between Democratic-led states and the U.S. Department of Education over a mental health grant program that Congress established following the 2018 school shooting...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have a benign lesion on my liver that needs to be removed. My surgeon said he would use robotic-assisted surgery. Can you tell me more about that?

ANSWER: Yours is a common question. When people first hear "robotic surgery," they often think of a robot on autopilot doing the procedure. However, that couldn't be further from ...Read more

A dangerous parasite that causes explosive diarrhea is spreading throughout the Midwest, as federal health officials investigate the still-undetermined source of the outbreak.

Michigan — the state with the highest infection count — recorded 1,251 total cases of Cyclosporiasis on Thursday, a 26% jump from the previous day. The infections ...Read more

A new study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration detected heavy metals, including lead and arsenic, in popular tampon brands, but not enough to raise health concerns.

“While trace metals are present in tampons, the amount released during use is too small to cause harm,” the agency announced this week.

The Inquirer spoke with Robyn ...Read more

Chester County health officials confirmed two measles cases in residents this week as the highly contagious disease continues to spread in Southeastern and Central Pennsylvania.

The county has now seen four cases since late June, in addition to one case recorded this winter.

The newly reported cases bring Pennsylvania’s tally to 101 measles ...Read more