The Scope Blog

Lyme disease is an infection caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide. Protecting yourself from the sun is vital.

Here are six proven ways to keep your skin healthy and youthful.

The extensive process vaccines undergo before they’re offered to the public are explained, as well as the extra measures taken to ensure the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Colds typically last for three to seven days, even though symptoms can last up to two weeks.

Discover 10 tips on how you can protect the older adults in your family from COVID-19. Learn more.

Those who have had the real, honest-to-goodness, confirmed case of the flu tend to remember it in detail.

During and after the holiday season and especially when school begins again, it can be easy to pick up something that’s not on our gift list: the flu.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that about 35 percent of adults have prediabetes. That means nearly 40,000 adults in Carroll, Haralson and Heard counties have prediabetes.

“What medications do you take?” You’re probably asked that question every time you visit a medical provider.

Every day caregivers battle stress that is caused by emotional and physical strain from providing care.

High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, the first and fourth leading causes of death for all Americans.

Maybe you haven’t got it yet, and maybe you’re really trying hard to avoid it, but it’s flu season and the virus is definitely going around.

A survey last year confirmed something we all suspected: Men don’t like going to the doctor for their annual physical.

Antibiotics only treat bacterial infections. Viral illnesses cannot be treated with antibiotics.