Health Care

Your brain needs exercise as much as your body does.

Medical tests can be lifesaving, but few patients are ever told about the unexpected scenarios.

The clinic is located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.

Person-to-person transmission of the pneumonic plague hasn’t occurred since the 1920s in the United States.

The agency says 48 cases over the past 17 years have been found, but warns 'detections of the fungus increased approximately fourfold' in recent years.

Fractures cause many emergency room visits. But getting fitted for a brace is only the first step toward recovery.

A study of nearly 2.3 million older adults found that one medicine is often followed by another for a problem the first drug may have caused.

Some experts question the necessity of the program, its purpose, and whether care will be properly delivered.

Workers are expected to bear some of the increase through higher premiums, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket costs.

Xylitol is a common sweetener used in a variety of products, including gums, oral care products, beverages, and food.

The $99 test neighbors swear by adds little for most people, and a new trial did not show that it prevents more heart attacks.

Spinal pain is often linked to damage or dysfunction in the muscles, fascia, and nerves surrounding the bone.

The agency said Friday that overall COVID-19 and respiratory viral activity is ’very low’ as of this week.

You might be taking an anti-seizure drug for your back pain without even realizing it. In fact, 95 percent of gabapentin prescriptions are for uses it wasn’t originally approved to ...

Millions of people grew up thinking their tonsils were useless lumps of tissue. Surgeons remove them from half a million children every year in the United States alone. Then researchers ...

So far, 12 cases of Vibrio vulnificus have been reported across the state in 2026, Florida health officials reported.

Patients are asked to accept a bill for untold costs. It's not entirely legal and there are ways to fight back.

At least 48 cases have been reported as of June 30, the agency said.

The notice said chlorthalidone tablets are under recall because of ‘failed dissolution specifications.’

CMS has opened the door to paying for supervised deprescribing. Experts say the harder work is building the support patients need.

Contrast agents used in CT and MRI scans are medications, not harmless dyes.

'Healthcare providers should be on increased alert for travel-related emerging and seasonal infectious diseases,' officials say.

Millions of Americans skip or stretch medications because of cost. There are cheaper options, but only if the patient knows where to look.

The outbreak is primarily centered in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The United States eliminated the disease in the 1950s, the agency noted, but it imports cases when travelers return from countries with endemic malaria.

Scientists followed a group of indigenous people living in remote villages who maintain a traditional lifestyle.

There have been at least 500 suspected cases and 131 suspected deaths associated ⁠with the outbreak, according to the World Health ​Organization.