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Home remedies can be useful for some conditions, experts say

Ginger helps with nausea, and honey for some coughs.

A possible cervical cancer screening tool? A menstrual pad.

Testing menstrual blood is as accurate as conventional HPV screening, a study suggests.

Returning to a sport after injury is a mental game. Here’s how to do it.

Address your fears. Manage your stress. And learn to adapt to other sports and activities.

Sci-fi types of medical implants will soon become reality, researchers say

Such technology may allow screening before an appointment without having to send a patient to a lab for testing, or for people to always carry their medical records.

Could 2022 be a better, healthier year? Ten reasons to be cautiously optimistic.

Buried under the layers of grief and loss, there are seeds of hope.

‘I’m not drinking right now.’ You don’t need to have a problem to take a break.

Melissa Urban, co-founder of the Whole30 program, experimented with a break from alcohol. Three years later, she doesn’t miss it.

He died after waiting 15 days for a hospital bed. His family blames unvaccinated covid-19 patients.

“It was terribly frustrating being told, ‘There’s not a bed yet,’ ” said Jenifer Owenson, one of Dale Weeks’s four children. Almost 82 percent of hospitalized covid-19 patients in Iowa are unvaccinated, according to the state’s Department of Public Hea…

Omicron snarls some Christmas travel plans; 3,800 flights canceled worldwide

Cancellations are modest, but ‘if your flight is the one that’s been canceled, the world has just ended,’ says analyst.

Stuck inside because of the omicron variant? Here are creative ways to stay safe and sane.

Health experts suggested staying active if people are feeling well enough — and exercising both body and mind.

With omicron, many vaccinated Americans will at some point test positive. Here’s what to do.

From at-home care to evaluating an emergency, here’s what to do if you get a breakthrough coronavirus infection.