Having private insurance may not be all it is cracked up to be when it comes to hospital bills, new research warns. In a report published Monday by the nonprofit research institute RAND Corp., researchers discovered that...

Seniors over 80 with acute myeloid leukemia can safely and effectively take the standard targeted therapy for the blood cancer, a new study finds. The oral drug venetoclax is typically given to older AML patients whose bodies...

Babies born by C-section are unlikely to receive protection from a single dose of measles vaccine, a new study finds. A single measles jab is up to 2.6 times more likely to be completely ineffective in C-section...

Vaping rates among U.S. kids in grades 9 through 12 fell to 5% in 2021, the latest year for which data is available. That’s down from a peak of 7.2% of teens who vaped in 2019, a...

Night shift work can increase a person’s risk of chronic disease, and a new study reveals one possible explanation for this. It appears that just a few days on a night shift schedule throws off body rhythms...

Melanoma, while rare among Black Americans, is often detected later with devastating consequences, a new study finds. Black people are frequently diagnosed with melanoma at later stages, increasing their risk of death compared to fairer-skinned patients, researchers...

Women who smoke during pregnancy run a higher risk of their kids becoming overweight or obese, and researchers now think they know one reason why. Children born of moms who smoked while expecting tend to have gut...

Actress and “X-men” star Olivia Munn has revealed that she underwent egg retrieval and then a hysterectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer. In an article published on Mother’s Day, Munn told Vogue she opted for hysterectomy...

Women who get abortion pills through the mail receive care that’s as good as those who are required to get them in person from a clinic or doctor’s office, a new study says. Using a mail-order pharmacy...

(HealthDay news) — Could being a lesbian or bisexual shorten your life? New research that analyzed decades of data on women suggests it might. What’s driving the trend? Researchers point to discrimination as the primary culprit. While...