Health & Wellness - March 2022 Archives

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. Red blood cells are usually round and flexible, so they move easily through ...

The loss or change in a person's sense of taste and smell is something that can happen to people who have had COVID-19.  It's a ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Since the beginning of winter, my eyes feel dry and scratchy. I can no longer wear contacts because my eyes burn and sting, ...

March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn about diabetic kidney disease. Diabetic nephropathy, also called diabetic kidney disease, is a serious ...

Last week marked two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. While infection rates and hospitalizations in the U.S. continue ...

National guidelines recommend people of average risk of developing colorectal cancer begin screening at age 45. However, Dr. Lisa Boardman, a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist, says ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My friend was diagnosed with a thoracic aortic aneurysm. What causes this type of aneurysm, and how fast does it grow? Also, how ...

MS Awareness Week will be observed March 13–19, which makes this a good time to learn about multiple sclerosis, or MS. Nearly 1 million people are living with ...

Multiple myeloma is a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell.  Healthy plasma cells help the body fight infections ...

If the average TV show is to be believed, going into labor is easy to predict. It will happen to any character who is pregnant ...

March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn about kidney cancer. Kidney cancer is cancer that begins in the kidneys, which ...

Experts at Mayo Clinic and around the world are learning more every day about the long-term health effects of COVID-19. Post-COVID syndrome, also known as long-haul ...