Health & Wellness

World Sickle Cell Awareness Day is dedicated to shining a light on an often overlooked health issue.

Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that causes red blood cells to take on a crescent—or “sickle”—shape, which disrupts normal blood flow and oxygen delivery throughout the body

GLP-1 medications have become game changers for people trying to lose weight, but bariatric surgery is still superior when it comes to total and lasting weight loss, a new study has found. Patients who underwent a sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass lost about five times more weight after two years than people who had weekly injections of semaglutide or tirzepatide...

When the local clinic closed, many lost access to basic care. Virtual options exist, but barriers like cost and connectivity remain.

Pediatrician Dr. Rachel Moon breaks down the safest ways to put your baby to sleep and explains why it matters, as cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) continue to rise.

Hoda Kotb is ready to channel the joy she brought to TODAY viewers and beyond for years. Allow her to introduce her new venture: a wellness brand appropriately titled Joy 101.

Drugmakers are offering the blockbuster medications at steep discounts to people willing to pay out of pocket.

Medication mistakes — where the wrong drug or the wrong dosage is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine.

When Mika Stambaugh went to the dermatologist for a simple skin check, she didn’t expect to leave that appointment with a gaping hole in her face.

If you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night often, you’re not alone. Here’s what a sleep doctor says about why it happens.

Attention spans are shrinking, with research showing the average person’s has declined from 2.5 minutes in 2004 to 47 seconds now.

A particular fast food order — called the “McDonald’s migraine meal” online — might hold the sweet, salty power to stop a migraine in its tracks.

Climate change has added at least a week of dangerously hot days for pregnant women in every state, raising risks of stillbirths and pre-term births.

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded, the CDC reported Wednesday.

Amid an ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S. that’s killed two children and one adult — all unvaccinated — the health secretary has pushed unproven remedies.

It’s more important now than ever for employers to give caregivers the help they need. NBC6’s Sophia Hernandez reports

The return of the spring garden can be dreaded by many allergy sufferers. Here’s a list of allergy-inducing plants to avoid this season.

U.S. health officials say a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat sandwiches and snacks has sickened at least 10 people.

Sleep doctor Dr. Samanta Dall’Agnese shares some of the most common reasons why you might find yourself up in the middle of the night, and how to handle it.

Walgreens is expanding the number of its retail stores served by its micro-fulfillment centers as it works to turn itself around and prepares to go private.