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WASHINGTON — GOP health panel leaders in the Senate on Wednesday seemed intent on quickly implementing a health savings account proposal to replace expiring health care tax credits that subsidize insurance plans used by millions of Americans, despite increased skepticism from Democrats and even some House Republicans.

During a Senate Finance ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has seen one of the nation’s sharpest drops in measles herd immunity among kindergartners, falling well below the threshold needed to prevent outbreaks. A rise in nonmedical exemptions, especially at private schools, is one factor behind the decline.

New measles cases have been reported in Dakota and Olmsted counties...Read more

Why do I always make sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving dinner? And why do grocery stores highlight all the ingredients for green bean casserole every November? Traditions are a big part of the holidays, for sure. And some of them go way back in time.

For instance, there’s a good chance that turkey was on the table in 1621 when the ...Read more

The White House recently announced a landmark deal with pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly and Nordisk that will impact Medicare beneficiaries and others in the coming months. The agreement cuts prices for GLP-1 receptor agonists, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, while expanding Medicare coverage for these weight-loss medications. The news is a ...Read more

Food poisoning happens when you eat food or drink water that’s been contaminated with harmful bacteria, viruses or toxins. It’s more common than you might think — millions of people get it every year. Most cases are mild and go away on their own, but it’s important to recognize the signs so you can take care of yourself.

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Food recalls can be alarming, especially when they make the news. A food recall occurs when a company identifies that a food product may be contaminated or mislabeled and removes it from the market. One of the most serious reasons for a recall is the risk of foodborne illness caused by contamination with bacteria or viruses. Others include ...Read more

Chronic pelvic pain — a condition also known as chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, or CP/CPPS — is one of the more common and challenging conditions older men face. “CP/CPPS is often regarded as an ‘orphan disease,’ as it has no definitive cause or proven treatments,” says Dr. Michael O’Leary, a urologist and ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 86-year-old father was recently hospitalized with a severe infection. We were told he’s at an increased risk for sepsis because of his age and medical history. What are the signs of sepsis to watch for now that he’s returned home?

ANSWER: Nearly 270,000 people in the U.S. die annually because of sepsis — more than the...Read more

Artificial intelligence is upon us, and just as other historical breakthrough technologies have proved, it is not a matter of how it will accommodate us but how we must accommodate it. Education, finance, law, transportation and energy are all sectors that are being dramatically transformed by AI, and medicine will be no exception. What will the...Read more

In the early 1980s, men and women in the prime of their lives began arriving at Walter Reed Medical Center, wrecked by a disease for which we had no name, no cause and no hope. As an infectious disease doctor there, I saw patient after patient bedridden and dying by the time they reached my care.

Those early stages of the AIDS epidemic were ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Jeremy Goldsmith is a guitarist, and a session musician who has written and produced music for TV shows and programming over the years such as the Tokyo Olympics, Fox NFL Sunday and “ Say Yes to the Dress.”

So when Goldsmith, who lives in Fairfield, Connecticut, started noticing his left hand and arm were not functioning ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 39-year-old brother was just diagnosed with gastric cancer. The diagnosis was especially shocking because of his age. Is this becoming more common? Does age affect the approaches to treatment?

ANSWER: Stomach cancer, also referred to as gastric cancer, was once thought of as a disease of older adults. However, it is ...Read more

MIAMI — Iguanas are becoming a growing health concern in South Florida, with doctors and residents warning that the invasive reptiles can spread salmonella through their droppings and even their bites. The issues has already sent some children to the hospital and pushed one South Florida father to rethink his career.

“He was just really off...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave his sharpest rebuke of congressional Democrats’ efforts to extend expiring Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits, saying he would not support legislation to do so.

The announcement, made through a post on Truth Social, comes as Senate Republicans and the White House had promised to ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Among the 16 building trades in the St. Louis area, a network is forming to focus on the mental health of workers.

The increasingly critical effort aims to draw out a group with a reputation for being tough as nails — and tight-lipped about personal problems.

The motivation to join forces can be found in statistics. ...Read more

More than three-quarters of American adults didn’t get a COVID shot last season, a figure that health care experts warn could rise this year amid new U.S. government recommendations.

The COVID vaccine was initially popular. About 75% of Americans had received at least one dose of the first versions of the vaccine by early 2022, Centers for ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital began offering new mothers who gave birth there a follow-up visit with a nurse at home, Ebony Durant worried that the idea would be a hard sell for patients.

“I thought that families would not be receptive — they wouldn’t want us in their homes,” said Durant, a city health ...Read more