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CHICAGO — DeKalb County reported its first measles case of the year this week, as the disease — once eradicated in the U.S. — continues to spread in several states.

Health officials are investigating the case and contacting people who may have been exposed, the DeKalb County Health Department said in a release Thursday, while keeping ...Read more

Country megastar Dolly Parton assured fans she’s taking care of herself after facing a series of health issues while grieving her late husband, Carl Dean.

The “Jolene” singer offered the update on Friday during the opening day celebration of her Tennessee theme park, Dollywood. The park kicked off its 41st season since opening in 1986.

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NEW YORK — Staffers at the federal World Trade Center Health Program — which has already seen more than a 25% drop in personnel — have been reassigned to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Indian Health Service, advocates for the 9/11 community said.

They are demanding a hearing with U.S. Department of Health and Human ...Read more

A popular class of drugs for treating diabetes and obesity reduces addiction, including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, opioids and cocaine, according to research published March 4 by researchers from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri.

The large study involving 600,000 veterans with diabetes found that those taking GLP-1 ...Read more

Billy Joel's daughter Alexa Ray Joel is proud he is taking his health seriously.

"He's doing physical therapy regularly and he's doing great. He's lost weight as he's on his diet," the singer-songwriter told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Thursday. "I'm so proud of him. He's such a trooper, so resilient and committed to being ...Read more

NEW YORK — Nearly one year after he was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition, Billy Joel is on the mend and hopes to make it back out on tour, his daughter Alexa Ray Joel revealed.

“He’s doing physical therapy regularly and he’s doing great,” she told the Hollywood Reporter.

“He’s lost weight as he’s on his diet. I’m ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I recently found out that my aunt was diagnosed with cancer and may need chemotherapy. When I think of chemotherapy, I picture hair loss, nausea and being too sick to maintain anything resembling a normal quality of life. However, friends have told me that chemotherapy isn't what it used to be. What's changed, and what should ...Read more

DENVER — People who visited an Arvada sports bar on Tuesday night should watch for measles symptoms and get the vaccine immediately if they haven’t already received it, Colorado public health officials said Thursday.

Someone who lives in the same household as one of the people sickened in the Broomfield schools outbreak — which has grown ...Read more

In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the U.S. was relatively rare – a few hundred cases each year, at most. But suddenly, the disease has become so entrenched in American life that it sometimes fails to make headlines when a new outbreak erupts.

As of March 2026, measles has been continuously circulating around the...Read more

BATON ROUGE, La. — The ambitious liver doctor would go just about anywhere in his home state to give people the hepatitis B vaccine.

Bill Cassidy offered jabs to thousands of inmates at Louisiana’s maximum-security prison in the early 2000s. A decade before that, he set up vaccine clinics in middle schools, a model hailed nationally as a ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: After my brother was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, I read that it's often treated with surgery first. Can you tell me more about the surgery?

ANSWER: When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer — which includes both colon and rectal cancers— many people immediately think "surgery." And it’s true that surgery ...Read more

UW Medicine officials on Wednesday warned of the growing number of measles cases in Washington state ahead of the summer travel season and FIFA World Cup and related events planned in the Puget Sound region.

Measles is considered highly contagious and easily spread. According to information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...Read more

A new study led by researchers at UC San Diego shows a certain protein detected in the blood can provide decades of early warning that a person is at an increased risk of developing dementia later in life.

The finding has the potential to provide a longer runway to make the lifestyle changes that can help reduce risk, and could be used to ...Read more

Over the past few years, a new class of medications has transformed the treatment of obesity. Drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro work primarily by reducing appetite, helping people eat less and feel full sooner. Their success has demonstrated something important: Body weight is biologically regulated, and targeting the right biological ...Read more