Research shows that quitting smoking, even after age 65, greatly reduces your risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, osteoporosis and many other diseases.

Donald Trump’s second term has roiled medical care in America. With cuts to Medicaid, drug-pricing deals, the sudden ubiquity of “Make America Healthy Again” and the end of extra marketplace subsidies ...

Alas, there are no homunculi crammed inside the smallest human cells. Yet recent research in fertility and urology suggests Hartsoeker’s image could work metaphorically: Sperm can be a proxy for the ...

A first-of-its-kind analysis has revealed significant differences in stroke outcomes and stroke care for patients on government-run traditional Medicare plans versus those on Medicare Advantage, ...

Some bills have drawn significant opposition as Kentucky's legislative session nears its midway point. Here's what to know ...

Dr. Douglas Wood, Henry N. Harkins Endowed Professor, chair of the UW Medicine department of surgery, and recipient of the UW ...

Shira Boehler shares her journey being diagnosed with Stage 1 lung cancer. A doctor explains the need for better lung cancer screening for asymptomatic, never smokers.

A man who had lung cancer after smoking 40 cigarettes a day over 40 years has said he owes his life to a health screening in a supermarket car park. Les McCaffrey said he had not smoked in 20 years ...

Melissa Rieben, a nurse practitioner at Mercy Medical Center, told WBAL-TV 11 News that anyone who has a family history of cancer may want to start screening at younger ages to be proactive. Rieben ...

University of Iowa researchers are working to study the correlation between oral and metabolic health, a category Iowa particularly falls behind in according to Iowa Health and Human Services. Iowa ...