This article was originally published on KFF Health News. Samuel Hanke is a pediatric cardiologist in Cincinnati, but when you ask him for his title, he follows it by saying: “Most importantly, I’m Charlie’s dad.” Hanke remembers the night 13 ...

Merkel cell carcinoma, the skin cancer that killed beloved Margaritaville singer Jimmy Buffett on September 1, is rare. But it may become more common in the coming decades. Every year the US diagnoses 3,000 new cases of this disease—a number ...

Merkel cell carcinoma, the skin cancer that killed beloved Margaritaville singer Jimmy Buffett on September 1, is rare. But it may become more common in the coming decades. Every year the US diagnoses 3,000 new cases of this disease—a number ...

With the changing weather comes virus season. Throughout the pandemic, infectious disease experts have seen an uptick in COVID cases during the fall and winter as more people stay indoors. The latter half of the year is also the time ...

This article is from a partnership that includes WBUR, NPR, and KFF Health News. An important email appeared in the inboxes of a small group of health care workers north of Boston as this summer started. It warned that local ...

The dietary supplement market in the US is valued at more than $50 million dollars. One slice of that—fish oil supplements—has been growing in popularity in recent years, thanks to the many health benefits touted on their labels. However, medical ...

Three years into the global COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated four million Americans report that long COVID is severely impacting their daily lives. Scientists are still trying to better understand the condition that brings with it severe brain fog, blood clots, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are tracking and studying a highly mutated new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19. Officially titled BA.2.86 and nicknamed Pirola on social media, the WHO has ...

There are now two morning after pills you can pick up after a night of intimacy. Everyone’s familiar with the emergency contraceptive Plan B, but doctors are also pushing for a new treatment called Doxy-PEP to stop the spread of ...

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