What doctors can't see can make glioblastoma especially difficult to treat.

This aggressive brain cancer can extend beyond what's visible on a standard MRI, making it difficult to precisely target treatment. Just 5% to 7% of patients survive five years after diagnosis.

Mayo Clinic researchers are studying advanced imaging techniques designed ...Read more

As Americans grow increasingly frustrated with their healthcare system, a proposal that has long been kicked around on the Democratic periphery is showing up in debates and on political platforms: “Medicare for All.”

According to a 2025 Economist-YouGov poll, nearly 60% of Americans favor a system of Medicare for All, while 85% of Democrats...Read more

When Lori Baute first learned about precautionary full-body MRI scans, she dismissed the idea.

“ I heard Kim Kardashian got one, and some other wealthy people,” Baute said. But at 59, she was worried about her long-term health. She has a family history of cancer, and she’s a critical caregiver for her aging mom and her adult brother ...Read more

A new California law will bar hospitals and doctors’ offices from using artificial intelligence to independently perform medical tasks that require a professional license, such as prescribing medications or ordering tests.

Assembly Bill 1979, signed last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom and taking effect Jan. 1, requires healthcare facilities to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A 39-year-old woman in Franklin County died after contracting measles, the county’s coroner reported Monday, the sixth report of a death linked to Pennsylvania’s worst measles outbreak in decades.

The woman had “several underlying conditions, including a past diagnosis of measles with treatment,” Coroner Jordan Conner ...Read more

Mr. V felt tightness across his chest. His deepest breaths felt shallow. He sought help at an emergency department, where a resident physician found several worrying signs, including swelling of his hands and legs as well as heart enlargement on a chest X-ray.

Everything seemed to point to one diagnosis: heart failure, where the heart...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have a friend who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, but she didn't have any obvious symptoms. What are some signs or symptoms women should pay attention to and get checked out?

ANSWER: Unfortunately, ovarian cancer can be a difficult-to-detect disease early on because its symptoms often are vague and easily mistaken for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Every Tuesday, Naman Shah sees tuberculosis patients at a small public clinic in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. Shah, a physician and epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, pores over images of battered lungs, listens to labored breathing, and checks medications.

It’s part of an initiative ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have a friend who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, but she didn't have any obvious symptoms. What are some signs or symptoms women should pay attention to and get checked out?

ANSWER: Unfortunately, ovarian cancer can be a difficult-to-detect disease early on because its symptoms often are vague and easily mistaken for ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Christina Starks-Clay doesn’t know how “Medicare for All” would work exactly, but she’s willing to bet it’d be better than what she has now.

Standing in line for U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s town hall in the state’s capital in September, she whipped out her phone to pull up a screenshot. It was of the ...Read more

Short stature means a child is much shorter than most children the same age and sex. While sometimes short stature is typical in some children, it can be associated with an underlying medical condition. October is Dwarfism Awareness Month, shining an annual light on children with short stature, and the American Academy of Pediatrics has helpful ...Read more

Two adults from central North Carolina have died after contracting West Nile virus, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.

The department announced the deaths on social media Friday. The deaths come after the department reported the first case of the disease in a Gaston County resident earlier this year. A West Nile ...Read more

Six unvaccinated people have confirmed measles infections in a cluster of cases in southeastern Minnesota.

Fillmore County Public Health announced the total late this week, calling the cases “connected” and warning “the case count may continue growing in the days and weeks ahead.”

People should “continue watching for measles symptoms...Read more

A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and other artificial intelligence-powered tools to manage their healthcare and medical records.

As that campaign has unfolded, administration officials have ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- After days of rain across the Tampa Bay area, local officials are ramping up efforts against an unprecedented rise in cases of dengue fever this year.

As of Oct. 1, Hillsborough has seen 223 confirmed dengue fever cases, the most in the state. But that number is likely much higher, Florida Department of Health officer Carla Fry ...Read more

Surrogacy arrangements – agreements for someone to carry a pregnancy for the intended parents – have existed for millennia, and modern surrogacy contracts for half a century.

These contracts typically address parental rights, the possibility of abortion, medical instructions, health insurance and payment of expenses, each side ...Read more

If a person’s story changes in the weeks following an alleged sexual assault, are they not telling the truth?

It’s a criticism I’ve seen on social media and heard in the public conversation surrounding the lawsuit filed in September 2026 by a plaintiff known as Jane Doe, a former student at Cornell University, accusing seven ...Read more

Drugmakers are pushing to develop effective defenses against Lyme disease as intensifying tick seasons continue to put more people at risk, with trials focused on vaccines and on drugs designed to block the pests’ ability to infect.

Companies including Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. have stepped up efforts 24 years after the only Lyme vaccine ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I've been diagnosed with a rotator cuff tear. What factors determine the best treatment approach, and what can I expect during recovery?

ANSWER: To better understand whether a rotator cuff tear may require surgery, it helps to first understand what the rotator cuff is and how it works.

The rotator cuff is a group of muscles ...Read more