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Hormone Therapy May Help Improve Menopause Brain Fog, Mood Changes

Recent research has shown that hormone therapy may help improve brain fog and mood changes associated with menopause. elenaleonova · E+/Getty Hormone therapy may affect changes in the brai...

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Some Safety Protections In ChatGPT For Teens Don't Work, Watchdog Finds

Some Safety Protections In ChatGPT For Teens Don't Work, Watchdog Finds Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A phone with the ChatGPT app in a file photograph. Oleksii...

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Michael Strahan Shares the Words That Helped His Daughter Through Brain Cancer Treatment

Michael Strahan and his daughter, Isabella, discuss their family’s experience with brain cancer during a fireside chat hosted by Real Chemistry and SMAC in New York City on October 6, 2026. Photo c...

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Just Have Some Yogurt

Somehow, America has yet to reach peak protein. Perhaps we never will. Even after David bars have gone viral for being bricks of essentially pure protein and Starbucks has rolled out lattes topped ...

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Journalists Go Behind Health Headlines From Georgia, Michigan, and Russia

KFF Health News senior correspondent Jordan Rau discussed the use of antipsychotic drugs in sedating dementia patients on Michigan Public’s Stateside on Oct. 6. Click here to hear ...

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Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: Lung Cancer Can Look Like Anyone

Gini Harrison is a mom, a psychologist, and a professor in the United Kingdom. Harrison never smoked in her life and is living with stage 4 EGFR-positive lung cancer. Photo by Gini Harrison ...

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Autism and ADHD: people need support before diagnosis, but getting one can change their lives

For some adults, receiving an autism or ADHD diagnosis can transform how they understand themselves, but finding appropriate mental health support can remain difficult. VH-studio/Shutterstock I ha...

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Wellness Apps, Medically Tailored Meals Help Slow Weight Gain After GLP-1s

Recent research shows that structured support may help with weight maintenance after stopping GLP-1s. licensed miniseries · E+/Getty Most people regain a significant portion of the weight ...

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Graphic Novels About Therapy for World Mental Health Day

October 10 is World Mental Health Day! Mental illness, as well as the therapies and medications that are often needed to help people feel their best, is still too often treated as a taboo subject. ...

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Students from military families are often misunderstood in US public schools – a retired military officer and behavioral health expert explains what schools can do

Children's responses to military life vary, depending on their age and their level of maturity. Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty ImagesOver 1.4 million children h...

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AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room

A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and othe...

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‘We Are Seen as Disposable’: Rural Residents Fight a Proposed Gas Pipeline

CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Despite being in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, this rural county of roughly 85,000 people is still brimming with red foxes, coyotes, white-tailed deer, and wild...

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Taking Blood Pressure Meds? DASH Diet Likely Safe for Potassium Levels

The well-known DASH diet does not significantly affect potassium levels in adults taking certain blood pressure medications. Tatiana Maksimova/Moment/Getty Images A new study reports that ...

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Where top Democrat Senate candidates and their GOP opponents stand on trans athletes in women's sports

Democrats are heading into the 2026 midterms confronting a debate that has divided their party and repeatedly put candidates on the defensive: transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s s...

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‘Medicare for All’ Is Back. Now Comes the Hard Part.

As Americans grow increasingly frustrated with their healthcare system, a proposal that has long been kicked around on the Democratic periphery is showing up in debates and on political platforms: ...

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Medical Debt Is Crushing Hospital Patients in Los Angeles. Health Officials May Have a Fix.

LOS ANGELES — Every Tuesday, Naman Shah sees tuberculosis patients at a small public clinic in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. Shah, a physician and epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Depar...

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Pain Prevalence Higher in Women, Increases Most Rapidly Before 55

Recent research has found that women experience pain more often than men and that pain prevalence increases more rapidly before the age of 55. ljubaphoto · E+/Getty A large global study fo...

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Detached Nails More Than 4 Times Higher Among GLP-1 Users, Study Finds

In a new study, GLP-1 users reported nail detachment more than four times as often as nonusers. Waishaw/Getty Images GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have been linked to unusual nail changes in a ...

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Why humans are so good at feeling bad

What can an economist teach us about misery? I had that question in mind while reading the new book The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us, by eminent rese...

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There’s a silver lining to your unhappiness

What can an economist teach us about misery? I had that question in mind while reading the new book The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us, by eminent rese...

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Online sports betting leads to more emergency room visits for gambling disorders

Gambling is putting people in the hospital, according to a new study. The increase in online sports betting has worsened mental health problems in younger men, lea...

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