Health & Wellness

When the local clinic closed, many lost access to basic care. Virtual options exist, but barriers like cost and connectivity remain.

Pediatrician Dr. Rachel Moon breaks down the safest ways to put your baby to sleep and explains why it matters, as cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) continue to rise.

Layne Horwich was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer at age 100, but she didn’t let her age stop her from fighting. Now, there’s one thing she attributes to helping her become cancer-free.

A centenarian is celebrating a milestone birthday and being cancer-free. Layne Horwich was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer at age 100. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell reports.

Hoda Kotb is ready to channel the joy she brought to TODAY viewers and beyond for years. Allow her to introduce her new venture: a wellness brand appropriately titled Joy 101.

Drugmakers are offering the blockbuster medications at steep discounts to people willing to pay out of pocket.

Medication mistakes — where the wrong drug or the wrong dosage is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine.

When Mika Stambaugh went to the dermatologist for a simple skin check, she didn’t expect to leave that appointment with a gaping hole in her face.

If you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night often, you’re not alone. Here’s what a sleep doctor says about why it happens.

After 82-year-old former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer, doctors are giving direction on what men should be thinking about as about 300,000 American men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year.

Attention spans are shrinking, with research showing the average person’s has declined from 2.5 minutes in 2004 to 47 seconds now.

A particular fast food order — called the “McDonald’s migraine meal” online — might hold the sweet, salty power to stop a migraine in its tracks.

New report brings attention to arsenic and other heavy metals that could be in your rice.

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded, the CDC reported Wednesday.

Amid an ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S. that’s killed two children and one adult — all unvaccinated — the health secretary has pushed unproven remedies.

Eating certain fruits and vegetables during peak pollen season could mean a strange reaction for some allergy sufferers.

Eating certain fruits and vegetables during peak pollen season could mean a strange for reaction for some allergy sufferers. Dr. Rachna Shah, the allergist and immunologist who heads Loyola Medicine’s pollen count, explains.

The return of the spring garden can be dreaded by many allergy sufferers. Here’s a list of allergy-inducing plants to avoid this season.

U.S. health officials say a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat sandwiches and snacks has sickened at least 10 people.