Health & Wellness - August 2020 Archives

Celiac disease is an immune reaction to eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. The cause of celiac disease isn't known, but ...

For years, turning 50 came with a special birthday message from your health care provider: Time to have a colonoscopy. Now that message will be coming a ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: My 10-year-old son loves school but last year he began to complain of stomachaches and headaches and would insist he had to ...

From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was known that the disease affected the lungs. But some of the most severe damage to the ...

Mayo is working with NASA to sequence the path of cancer — from what causes it to what drives it, and potentially how to prevent ...

Vitamin B-12 and other B vitamins play a role in producing brain chemicals that affect mood and other brain functions. Low levels of B-12 and ...

Getting a flu shot often protects you from coming down with the flu. And although the flu shot doesn't always provide total protection, it's worth ...

Health care workers across the country have been on the front lines fighting the coronavirus for more than six months. COVID-19 has presented extraordinary challenges ...

Wearing a face mask is one important intervention to decrease the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as other ...

­­The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted us all. Decisions that last year would have been easy to make, leave us questioning if there is a better option. ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Diabetes runs in my family. My mother was diagnosed in her 20s and requires daily insulin. Last month, my 45-year-old sister was ...

After several misdiagnoses, Sandy Blue was on the verge of losing her eyesight. But, thanks to a team of experts at Mayo Clinic and the ...