There are no official winter health screening tests, but some experts may recommend certain tests for older adults or those ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is quietly undermining an influential task force that has for years played a key role ...

Medications once used to treat illness are increasingly being taken for prevention. Experts explain what’s behind the ...

Under the Affordable Care Act, most health insurance plans must cover preventive services like annual physicals and screenings at no cost to the consumer, as long as you receive care from an ...

National Self-Check Month is an annual observance that reminds people to monitor their health through regular visual and ...

Dr. Troy Mensen is a family medicine doctor based in the Chicago area. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Northern Iowa and his doctorate at Des Moines University College of ...

The Senate has an opportunity to increase access to preventive health interventions by passing legislation that would better measure the long-term budget savings that these interventions would ...

A preventive medicine physician is a doctor who has experience in public health as well as clinical care. This allows them to provide insight and expertise in the prevention of injury, disease, and ...

The BigpAK-2 randomized prospective multicenter trial tested implementation of a bundle of measures to prevent acute kidney injury in high-risk patients undergoing major surgery. Trial results support ...

A large study into the effectiveness of migraine medications has found that some well-established, cheaper medications are just as effective at preventing migraines as the first-line treatment or ...

The still-relatively new federal health care law makes dozens of preventive tests free for patients. Doctors or hospitals are not supposed to charge patients for annual check-ups, most screening tests ...

Preventive healthcare means the measures taken to prevent diseases rather than treating them. One is advised to go for routine check-up even if the person is healthy as lifestyle diseases are ...