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You’ve likely heard about vitamin D’s important role in maintaining strong bones and teeth. But it also plays several other important roles to keep your body healthy – including the function of your gut.

As part of our research on how a dietary fiber supplement affects bone mass in children and adolescents, the MetA-Bone Trial, ...Read more

As a deadly outbreak of Ebola virus spreads in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on May 17, 2026, that it is transferring “a small number of Americans” who were in Congo and who were exposed to the virus.

Some of these exposures are classified as high-risk, and ...Read more

A U.S. missionary has tested positive for the Ebola virus after being exposed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

Satish Pillai, incident manager for the CDC’s Ebola response, said on a call with reporters that the missionary is showing symptoms and has been sent to ...Read more

The resignation of Marty Makary, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, on May 12, 2026, brought to the forefront a heated controversy over fruit-flavored nicotine vapes.

Rumors had been circulating for weeks that President Donald Trump was planning to fire Makary, in large part due to Makary’s disagreement with ...Read more

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — In a midwife’s suburban Atlanta home with a playground and chicken coop outside, Madie Collins lay on an examination table while the midwife measured her pregnant belly. Unlike at many a doctor’s office, no crinkly paper sheet covered the table and no antiseptic chill lingered in the air. The room next door, where ...Read more

There are 1,300 water parks in the United States and 85 million people visit them each year. As a parent, it's important to know what to look for if you are planning a trip to an indoor or outdoor water park.

First and foremost, know the rules of the park you plan on attending. Water slides are the No. 1 cause of injuries at water parks. It’s...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was just diagnosed with early stage melanoma, and I am being referred to an oncologist. What happens next? Will I need a lymph node biopsy, or are there cases where it can be safely avoided? What other surgical or nonsurgical treatment options might be recommended?

ANSWER: Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that ...Read more

TOLEDO, Ohio — The little boy, dressed in a Toy Story sweatshirt, wrapped himself around the nation's health secretary.

"What do you guys want to be when you grow up?" Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a carpet full of preschoolers.

"A dinosaur!" the boy replied, squeezing tighter.

Just weeks ago, Kennedy sat ...Read more

Three people were recently hospitalized after eating poisonous wild mushrooms foraged in California wine country amid an unprecedented outbreak of illness and deaths linked to the practice statewide, health officials in Napa County announced.

The adults ate poisonous wild mushrooms foraged in the Napa Valley community of Deer Park over the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — According to San Diego County vaccination records, about 6,800 of the 19,000 residents who received their initial mpox vaccination dose did not receive a follow-up booster shot, a fact that is increasingly important as the “clade I” version of the virus increasingly causes outbreaks worldwide.

San Diego officials this week ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that patients can continue to get mifepristone, one of the two drugs used for medication abortion, via telehealth and by mail. At least for now.

A lower court had temporarily blocked this access nationwide in early May 2026. The case now returns to that lower court, although it may well make it back ...Read more

The FDA’s recent decision to withhold approval of a new skin cancer treatment fell like a hammer on doctors who treat melanoma and patients who saw that the drug had prolonged the lives of a third of the participants in a clinical trial.

“It was devastating news,” said Trisha Wise-Draper, a dermatologist at the University of Cincinnati ...Read more

Cruise ships are convenient floating hotels by which to see far-flung parts of the world – but as an epidemiologist, I know they are also everything an infectious pathogen could want: thousands of strangers packed into enclosed spaces for days or weeks, sharing dining rooms and high-touch surfaces such as elevator buttons and handrails, ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was recently diagnosed with esophageal cancer, and I was told I may need surgery. How do doctors determine whether surgery is the right option? Are there newer, less invasive approaches available?

ANSWER: Treatment for esophageal cancer has evolved significantly in recent years, and surgery remains one of the most important ...Read more

The dry spell that hit hard this year has taken a toll on our horse and cattle pastures. Yet I can’t help but be amazed at the persistence of these centuries-old prairie grasses to survive. This morning as I surveyed the ground after a well-needed rain, I was struck by the valiant effort of tiny green sprigs beginning to emerge from the sandy ...Read more