Regular daily sunscreen use can help prevent the sun's rays from turning into deadly cancer. But there may be another unexpected benefit: stopping wrinkles.

South Carolina and the U.S. are seeing a summer wave of COVID-19 cases but fortunately not a spike of patients filling hospital beds, though it still can be deadly.

Suffering from PTSD for nine years, a Charleston woman had a breakthrough using the psychedelic MDMA. It is now up for approval, but the FDA might not agree.

Alma Atwater celebrated her sweet-100 with her centenarian sibling at a retirement home in Mount Pleasant. Here's how she — and a medical doctor — explains her success.

MUSC Health is ending all of its gender-affirming care after it says a new state law forbids public funding for it. That's news to some of its trans employees.

A new report shows expanding Medicaid would cover more than 350,000 uninsured and bring billions to the state. Gov. Henry McMaster sees it as a long-term burden.

Watching a grandson building with Lego bricks reveals more about relationships, about how children and adults want to be seen and appreciated, than expected.

MUSC Health is looking to spend nearly $600 million next fiscal year for new equipment and new facilities, including new hospitals in Nexton and Indian Lands.

Just as a new Alzheimer's drug becomes available to patients, 400 riders in South Carolina will be taking off on a cross-state trek to raise money for research.

Half a century after its formation, and a year after the initial bill was signed to separate a bloated state agency, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control officially split Monday. Here's what to expect.

A Charleston family who fought against S.C. legislation that cut off care for their transgender daughter was invited to the White House to celebrate Pride Month.

Roper St. Francis Healthcare System has named an experienced health care leader from Texas as its new CEO.

A South Carolina family had to travel far away for an abortion as their baby was being destroyed in the womb by a virus. Thousands more are leaving, as well.

Aging allows us to cross many thresholds in life, leading up to the final one. How we handled different transitions in life informs the last challenge we face.

A debilitating and misdiagnosed syndrome affects about one in 500 people, nearly all of them young women. MUSC is studying a simple way to bring them relief.

Many COVID patients, often young women, go on to suffer an ongoing heart problem that mirrors another syndrome. An MUSC study for one might apply to them both.

Tests for avian influenza are tightly restricted for now and doctors warn that could limit the ability to detect if it starts spreading in humans in the future.

Travel nurses flowed into hospitals to help them deal with a surge of patients during the pandemic. But as demand waned, many found a home in Roper hospitals.

A drain of medical professionals has slashed health care access for thousands of rural residents. Some unique models are trying to fill the void. 

Drownings across the nation shot up in the the pandemic and were increasing even earlier in South Carolina. The Family Y of Summerville is reaching out to help.

Summer vacations mean travel, which can mean different things to different people and at different ages. Real travel is taking what comes your way on the trip.

A Charleston VA study finds music does more than soothe Alzheimer's patients. It can actually stimulate key areas of the brain used in memory and attention.

It caused a splash as the first birth control pill without a prescription, but South Carolina doctors wish young women knew more about Opill and where to get it.

MUSC and a unique combination of state funding and South Carolina-based companies are working to develop a new drug to battle COVID, other respiratory viruses.

A Charleston group dedicated to helping people with disabilities gain access to custom equipment that allows them to participate got a $50,000 grant to help.

An unlikely village elder in England named Pearl was celebrated as a blessing to her community and was in turn blessed by them for all she had contributed.

After almost exactly one year and more than 4,100 calls, the Charleston call center for the South Carolina 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline sees progress ahead.

Funds from the settlement with opioid manufacturers are allowing communities to address addiction. In tribal nations, the traditional ways appear to be best.

Heart failure is an increasing problem in the U.S. and is growing among younger women due to the rise in obesity. A hole in the heart might actually help them.

My Sister's House domestic violence services and prevention group honored a T-Mobile volunteer as one of its top advocates. The company is all in on helping.

Aging for Amateurs: Once-common grandparenting tasks can take on a new proactive role in the schools.

At age 22, Rory Hart found he had a fatal progressive disease that will slowly rob him of the ability to talk and swallow and breathe. But he's not giving up.

A Summerville nurse who suffered a traumatic brain injury just before Mother's Day last year is back at work and appreciating her life and family this holiday.

In South Carolina, handing out clean needles as a harm-reduction tactic is neither explicitly outlawed nor expressly sanctioned. Advocates say that legal "gray area" makes it harder to recruit volunteers, score grants and expand services. 

A major advisory group is now recommending woman get a mammogram starting at age 40. While SC doctors agree, the new guidelines don't go far enough for them.

Alarmed by a rise in drug death and addiction, South Carolina agencies are offering a new way to see what drugs are being prescribed in the state and counties.

Legislators ideologically opposed to transgender care in South Carolina are pushing a ban for minors while families battle back and vow to keep fighting.

Memoirs can be a personal story, often meant to be shared with family, or history. Civil rights pioneer Millicent Brown's is both of these and so much more.