Health & Wellness - October 2016 Archives

In January 2016, Mayo Clinic began conducting the National Health Check-Up — a survey conducted several times throughout the year to take the pulse of ...

A large-scale emergency vaccine campaign to fight ongoing cholera outbreaks in Haiti will launch on Nov. 8. International health organizations are assisting Haiti's Ministry of ...

What if breast cancers could be found earlier, lumps seen more clearly or the number of callbacks reduced? Three-dimensional breast imaging technology can do ...

Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 10/29/16 High blood pressure, known as hypertension, generally develops over many years. Uncontrolled hypertension increases your risk of serious health ...

THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES Eating nuts for heart health Nuts pack a lot of nutrition in a tiny package. See how adding them to ...

Blood pressure is determined by the amount of blood your heart pumps and the amount of resistance to blood flow in your arteries. The more ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer at 54 and had surgery to remove one breast. Her surgeon told her that ...

Someone in the U.S. has a stroke every 40 seconds. The good news is that strokes can be treated and prevented, and many fewer Americans ...

Trick-or-treating and Halloween fun might seem like harmless childhood activities, but according to registered dietitian Diane Dressel with Mayo Clinic Health System, the holiday can ...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: An overview Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a type of cancer of the blood and bone marrow that most commonly affects older ...

Dandruff is a common chronic scalp condition marked by flaking of the skin on your scalp. It isn't contagious or serious, but ...

A Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) report released yesterday says 18 people in Michigan and Ohio fell ill after an outbreak of Influenza A(H3N2) ...