Health & Medical

Lee Health announced on Tuesday that it has launched a Spanish-language version of the digital patient portal MyChart.

A groundbreaking single-incision adrenal surgery is brand new, and it’s proving to be much faster, resulting in shorter hospital stays.

Up to 10,000 people a year lose their ability to blink, and that can cause serious problems, even causing people to go blind.

Lee county newborn recovering from botulism. At three weeks old, Khaizyn Kay was taken to Golisano Children’s Hospital after he stopped eating and grew lethargic. Parents Daisy and Joey Kay knew something was wrong.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval program is meant to give patients early access to promising drugs. But how often do these drugs actually improve or extend patients’ lives?

One in 50 children in the United States is allergic to peanuts. The number has tripled over the past 20 years and nobody really knows why. But there are several breakthroughs that may ease their symptoms. Including a toothpaste.

Only three centers in the state offer proton beam therapy, and not one of them is on the West Coast. However, that’s changing.

Bringing world-class breast care to SW Florida. That was the guiding principle in establishing a new, state-of-the-art imaging center in Collier County.

Microrobots deployed inside a body was once science fiction and only imagined in the movies, but now it’s becoming the basis of real science inside a lab.

Thirty million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic low back pain. It’s a pain that continues for more than six months.