Health & Medicine

Like many laws, the effort to get rid of the sales tax on menstrual products started as an idea.

New owner Sameer Suhail also plans a series of town halls to see what the community wants.

Closed since late 2017, the site was recently purchased by a Chicago-based entrepreneur.

Americans are living longer and many are active, so it’s no surprise that the field of orthopedics is booming. The University of Virginia says it’s now ready to treat 600 patients a day at its new orthopedics facility.

A team at Virginia Commonwealth University is working with scientists at two other medical centers to conduct the world’s largest study of genetic risk factors for depression.

There’s intriguing news today for people who fight the battle of the bulge. An expert at the University of Virginia says people who are overweight or obese do more to improve their health by exercising rather than trying to lose weight.

Many people are reluctant to talk about injury or serious illness, and they don’t fill out advance directives or other documents that could guide future…

More than 6 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease – the most common form of dementia. It afflicts one in nine Americans over the…

Scientists at the University of Virginia report what may be an important medical breakthrough. Laboratory testing shows the use of two cheap oral drugs…

As the nation prepares to start inoculating Americans for COVID-19, public health experts worry that many people distrust the vaccine. The problem is…