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Nearly half of all women who have had a mammogram to screen for breast cancer have been identified as having dense breasts. This makes it more challenging to detect breast cancer because dense tissue and tumors both appear white on a mammogram. That's one reason why it's recommended to have an additional screening done. But which one?

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One of the first signs of puberty in your child is likely to be new body odor. Maybe they are a little bit stinkier after their baseball game, or their laundry basket scent is filling up the room. This is perfectly normal.

Every child will have some body odor as puberty begins. This often starts as early as age 8 or 9.

Pre-teens and teens have...Read more

When Texas neurologist Hamid Kadiwala told his parents he was heading to Gaza to volunteer at a hospital there, they begged him to reconsider.

"Why would you take that risk?" they asked. What about his Fort Worth medical practice? His wife? His four children?

But Kadiwala, 42, had been deeply shaken by images from Gaza of mass death and ...Read more

An estimated 1.4 million immigrants who are in the country legally but are not citizens stand to lose their government-subsidized health care coverage under the sweeping tax and spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law this summer, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The One Big Beautiful Bill ...Read more

Editor's note: If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org.

For Gen Z adults, the oldest of whom are now reaching their late 20s, suicide is taking more lives than 10 years ago when millennials were ...Read more

There are some things you may not want to know about your body.

For me, high on that list was seeing firsthand, in real time, how the food I eat affects my blood sugar. I have a sweet tooth and a deep appreciation for carbs. This may be why my doctor has warned me for the past few years that I’m teetering on the border of “prediabetic.”

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Mary B. writes: “I appreciated your article about resistant starch and have a question. Do you need to refrigerate the rice for a day or can it go straight to the freezer for the same benefits?”

Great question, Mary. For readers who may have missed this particular column, resistant starch is a type of starch in foods such as rice and pasta ...Read more

A new vaccine against salmonella and typhoid moves closer to approval, according to results of a clinical trial published by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Oct. 8.

“These results are highly encouraging,” study lead investigator Dr. Wilbur Chen said in a statement announcing the news. “They show that [this ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Health officials are warning residents to remain on guard after Missouri experienced an increase in human West Nile virus cases so far this year.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is urging residents to remain vigilant and take precautions, as surveillance data shows a marked increase in cases in ...Read more

At a memorial service in 2022, veteran Air Force Capt. Monte Watts bumped into a fellow former Minuteman III nuclear missile operator, who told him that she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Watts knew other missileers with similar cancers. But the connection really hit home later that same January day, when the results of a blood test revealed that ...Read more

Stacey Knoll thought the court summons she received was a scam. She didn’t remember getting any medical bills from Montrose Regional Health, a nonprofit hospital, after a 2020 emergency room visit.

So she was shocked when, three years after the trip to the hospital, her employer received court orders requiring it to start funneling a chunk of...Read more

As Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dismantling of federal vaccine policy continues to roil the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some Democratic-led states have struck out on their own, setting up new systems to help them assess the science and maintain immunization access for their residents.

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One morning earlier this year, as Deb Capistrano came on duty for her shift as a nurse in her hospital’s stroke unit, her colleagues from the night shift warned her that one of her patients for the day was a man who’d been threatening to harm them.

Capistrano has been a registered nurse for 17 years. Threats of violence aren’t new to her....Read more