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A veritable avalanche of influencers, news headlines, and well-meaning friends and family offer conflicting advice on wellness. If you’re overwhelmed by fads and hype around wellness, read on. Dr. Wynne Armand, a primary care physician at Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham health care in Boston, recommends five simple habits to boost ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m sure pharmacists are busy, but what do they do? No one likes to wait for a prescription, especially if you’re not feeling well. When you see a pharmacist on the news, you see them counting pills. When I get prescriptions filled, I see the pharmacist looking at a computer. What training do pharmacists have? And what do ...Read more

LOUISVILLE, Tenn. — When a big storm hits, Peninsula Hospital could be underwater.

At this decades-old psychiatric hospital on the edge of the Tennessee River, an intense storm could submerge the building in 11 feet of water, cutting off all roads around the facility, according to a sophisticated computer simulation of flood risk.

Aurora, a ...Read more

At 59, Susan Wood, a longtime Boise, Idaho, resident, was too young to qualify for Medicare when she retired in July. So she signed up for a marketplace plan under the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.

But in the months since, the federal government’s proposed changes to health insurance have threatened to upend her planning — ...Read more

When Valerie Brown’s lung cancer returned and began to spread to other parts of her body, her doctors suggested a drug that would slow the cancer’s growth.

She’d already had surgery and radiation, and eliminating the cancer was no longer an option. Most people with her type of cancer live no more than five years.

Six years later, the 62-...Read more

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has floated a seismic idea: adding autism to the list of conditions covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The program, known as VICP, provides a system for families to file claims against vaccine providers in cases in which they experience severe side effects. ...Read more

A new engineered molecule shows promise as an antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning with fewer side effects than other remedies currently being tested, according to research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning sends about 50,000 Americans to the emergency room each year. In 2022, the CDC reported ...Read more

Cancer researchers with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital successfully boosted immune response to cancer tissue in a study that could dramatically improve survival and prevent tumor relapse.

Malignant tumors are challenging to treat because they typically avoid detection by the body’s immune system, preventing the immune response that ...Read more

Democrats Tuesday claimed they have grabbed the political upper hand in the fight over the government shutdown as Republican cracks are emerging on skyrocketing health insurance costs.

House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries spotlighted comments by outspoken right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, that she is “absolutely ...Read more

About 1,500 federally funded health centers that serve millions of low-income people face significant financial challenges, their leaders say, as the government shutdown compounds other cuts to their revenue.

Some of these community health centers may have to cut medical and administrative staff or reduce services. Some could eventually close. ...Read more

“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”

Vice President JD Vance in a Sept. 28, 2025, Fox News interview

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As the U.S. headed for a government shutdown, Republicans repeatedly accused Democrats of forcing the ...Read more

Hours into the federal government shutdown, Julio Fuentes stood steps from the U.S. Capitol to deliver an urgent message about the Hispanic voting bloc that helped the GOP sweep into power last year.

Those votes, he cautioned, are at risk if Congress doesn’t pass a law to preserve lower premiums on Affordable Care Act marketplace plans for ...Read more

MIAMI -- On a recent Friday morning, Pegasus slowly trots out of an elevator, surrounded by doctors and nurses. He’s ready to make his rounds and see the many sick children hospitalized at Holtz Children’s Hospital, located on Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Miami campus.

His owner, Alexandra Ramos, doesn’t need to say much to introduce the...Read more

ATLANTA — Raising a child is never easy, and for many parents, the journey is made even harder by the quiet weight of mental health struggles. New research shows that mental health conditions often affect both partners — and can deeply influence their children’s well-being.

October is a significant month for mental health awareness, ...Read more

Quinn Cochran-Zipp went to the emergency room three times with severe abdominal pain before doctors figured out she had early-stage cancer in the germ cells of her right ovary. After emergency surgery four years ago, the Greeley, Colorado, lab technician is cancer-free.

The two hospitals that treated Cochran-Zipp at the time determined that she...Read more

Millions of Medicaid enrollees may have a way out of the new federal work requirement — if they live in a county with high unemployment.

By January 2027, President Donald Trump’s far-reaching domestic policy law will require many adult, nondisabled Medicaid enrollees in 42 states and Washington, D.C., to work or volunteer 80 hours a month ...Read more