When I was pregnant with my second child, I remember sitting in my ob-gyn's office awaiting an ultrasound and peeping at my medical chart on the table next to me. Among the scribbles were the words ...

When a person first signs up for Medicare, they may come across many terms and abbreviations. Learning the definitions of these terms can help make it easier to understand and navigate Medicare.

Every day it seems a biotech company releases data for a promising new drug that it hopes will cure some dreaded disease, but has been studied only in a handful of people so far. Or a big university ...

Screening – any test that is carried out routinely among healthy individuals to identify tumors before they become symptomatic. A good example of a screening test is a mammogram to detect breast ...

A new app has been created to help patients who speak Innu-aimun communicate with their English-speaking health care providers. Madeline Benuen says a language glossary for Innu-to-English, and vice ...