The words that doctors choose during a consultation – and even the verb tense – can help or hurt a patient dealing with a ...

As September marks Sepsis Awareness Month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that at least 1.7 million adults in the U.S. develop sepsis annually, with nearly 270,000 deaths ...

Updated COVID-19 vaccines are now widely available at many pharmacies, but for New Mexicans who lack insurance, the wait will be longer and supplies less certain. The New Mexico Department of Health ...

A Cleveland Clinic study showed that in patients with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and chronic kidney disease, bariatric surgery was associated with a significant decrease in the progression of chronic ...

A dead bat found outside a clinic in Cedar Park, near Austin, tested positive for rabies, police said this week.

One set of symptoms people are paying more attention to lately has to do with the gut. “Personally, I’ve seen a lot of people this summer with COVID with a lot of GI (symptoms) – stomach pains, ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a bacterial infection that can cause painful coughing fits and difficulty breathing. Cases ...

Wastewater samples have shown elevated levels of a respiratory virus that has been linked to paralysis in some children, ...

The cause of heart disease is generally clogged arteries. These blood vessels can be blocked by fatty plaque that contains ...

So many stories, so little time. At least it feels like that when trying to stay atop news from around the National Park ...

Clarksville Parks and Recreation is excited to announce a new program aimed at improving health and wellness in the community: Tai Chi for Arthritis. This low-impact exercise class is designed for ...

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the ...