The National Policy for Rare Diseases is a reform initiative aimed at strengthening the country's healthcare ecosystem in addressing rare diseases in a more structured and sustainable manner.

The screenings on Friday, Feb. 27, are free to the first 100 people at each of three locations in Mobile and Baldwin counties ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, but doctors say many people don’t recognize the early ...

Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has started checking literacy skills during pediatric visits for kids as young as 3.

Black medical leaders highlight the persistent heart health crisis in the Black community, urging renewed attention and ...

“For most men in their 40s and 50s, checking cholesterol every one to two years is reasonable if levels are normal and overall risk is low,” Tran says. “If you have risk factors like high blood ...

The principle behind cancer-spotting blood tests is relatively simple. Some, like Galleri, analyse DNA fragments shed by ...

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Lesley Perkins is calling for heart screening in young people after her son, Daniel Cook from ...

Latent valvular damage in children often escapes routine detection, as the prevalence of subclinical Rheumatic Heart Disease ...

Memorial Health System provided free EKG (electrocardiogram) screenings at the Belpre Medical Campus Tuesday evening. To celebrate Heart Month, providers offered screenings, blood sugar tests, and ...

A blood test measuring inflammation is now being used by cardiologists to predict heart problems, alongside traditional cholesterol tests.