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Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz met in an Oct. 1 vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News that was cordial and heavy on policy discussion — a striking change from the Sept. 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

Vance and Walz acknowledged occasional agreement ...Read more

Eggs are an incredibly versatile food. Not only are they a natural in every meal, whether breakfast, appetizer, snack, or dessert, they are an ingredient in a wide range of foods.

The folklore

Humans have been eating eggs for about six million years, and as early as 1400 BC, birds were laying eggs specifically for consumption, according to ...Read more

The temperatures are dropping and sweater weather is nearly upon us. This is when we bust out our slow cookers or turn to comforting fall soups. Though fall can bring a variety of delicious seasonal flavors, the cooler temps can also bring on cold and flu season. While no specific food is a surefire way to prevent illness, there are certain ...Read more

An F may mean failure in school, but the letter earns high marks in your diet. The two biggest dietary Fs — fiber and fermented foods — are top priorities to help maintain healthy digestion, and they potentially offer much more. How can you fit these nutrients into meals? Can this help your overall health as well as gut health?

Fiber, ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: When I wake up in the morning and go to stand up, I have such excruciating pain in my heel that I have to sit back down on the edge of the bed. As the day goes on, it gets somewhat better, but my heel is still tender. What can be causing the pain?

ANSWER: “My heel is killing me!” is, without a doubt, one of the most common...Read more

In the year after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, more than 200 pregnant women faced criminal charges for conduct associated with their pregnancy, pregnancy loss or birth, according to a new report.

The report was produced by Pregnancy Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Every time Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz talks on a national stage about his and his wife’s yearslong struggle with infertility, countless people who’ve shared that same precarious journey can’t help but tear up.

Many of them are men.

Reed Osell, of Richfield, Minnesota, was shocked this election season to hear his own governor ...Read more

Starting next July, some California residents’ health insurance will pay for in-vitro fertilization, but it doesn’t apply to everyone.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires state-regulated, large-group employer health plans to cover the full range of services to treat infertility. The treatments can be expensive, easily ...Read more

Autumn is the season of change, with green leaves turning color and temperatures cooling. It's also the season of hay fever, or allergic rhinitis.

So how can people with fall allergies get relief? Dr. James Li, a Mayo Clinic allergist, has more in this Mayo Clinic Minute.

"Fall is a very common season for seasonal allergies to kick in," says ...Read more

ATLANTA — Amy Hudson’s 10-year-old son Lauder woke up in the early morning hours Tuesday with a bloody nose and red-rimmed eyes. Hudson stepped outside of their home in Morgan County, which neighbors Rockdale County, only to be hit with the strong smell of chlorine.

“It was so hazy I could barely see our light on this side of the house,�...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Children, teens and young adults in Southern California had been grappling with rising rates of depression and anxiety for years before the pandemic. Then COVID-19 came along and made their mental health struggles even worse.

Among 1.7 million young patients who were part of the Kaiser Permanente Southern California health ...Read more

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Leg pain and leg cramps aren’t always an orthopedic issue: Both can be signs of peripheral artery disease, or PAD, a serious blood-flow issue with implications for the heart.

In this expert alert, Young Erben, M.D., a vascular surgeon at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, explains how the most common form, PAD ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Climate change is exacerbating the risk of potentially dangerous mosquito-borne diseases in California — threatening to turn more of those annoying-but-harmless bites into severe illnesses, experts say.

California already grapples with West Nile virus, a potentially deadly disease that was first detected in the state about two...Read more

There’s a new morning ritual in Pinedale, Wyoming, a town of about 2,000 nestled against the Wind River Mountains.

Friends and neighbors in the oil- and gas-rich community “take their morning coffee and pull up” to watch workers building the county’s first hospital, said Kari DeWitt, the project’s public relations director.

“I ...Read more

When Preston Nafz was 12, he asked his dad for permission to play lacrosse.

“First practice, he came back, he said, ‘Dad, I love it,’” recalled his father, Lothar Nafz, of Hoover, Alabama. “He lives for lacrosse.”

But years of youth sports took a toll on Preston’s body. By the time the teenager limped off the field during a ...Read more