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Stuck in Shelters for Months, Some Migrant Children Abandon Hopes of Staying in US

One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom. “I want to be with...

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IVF Patients, Doctors Navigate Fetal Personhood Laws’ Unknowns

In the summer of 2022, Allison Mertzman and her wife, Leanne, asked their fertility clinic to destroy their embryos. The married couple were living in California but storing their nine embry...

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60 People Thought They Would Be Inseparable With Their Friends For Life, But Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong

Most friendships end with a slow fade, and you start to notice that the replies get shorter. Suddenly, the plans get vaguer, and then one day you realize you haven't seen each other since spring. I...

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Does time on social media make teens anxious and depressed? The evidence is not so clear

Catherine Falls Commercial/GettyParents are understandably worried about the impact of social media on the mental health of their children. In the last two decades, mental health disorders ha...

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Corner Shop: NightShift How we Built Horror Around an Ordinary Life

SummaryOut now on Xbox Series X|S and PC with XPA.Try to rebuild your life facing serious family problems and deteriorating mental health.How working with psychologists informed our approach to men...

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Low-Calorie Diet and Supervised Exercise May Reverse Early Onset Type 2 Diabetes

In a recent study, more than half of young adults entered remission for type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes. Luis Alvarez · DigitalVision/Getty A new trial found that 54% of adults with...

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Life Beneath the Melting Glaciers

Bulbul Kaie remembers when summer in Hassanabad revolved around a stream.The village lies in the mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan, a disputed territory in northern Pakistan bordering China, Afghanista...

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GLP-1s May Help Lower Diabetes, Heart Risks Better Than Standard Prevention

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro treated prediabetes more effectively than metformin, according to a new study. Milko/E+/Getty Images Researchers say GLP-1 medications appear to be mo...

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Expecting a Baby? Five Tips To Help You Prepare for Pregnancy Costs

(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) As Grace Griffin and her husband were welcoming their long-awaited baby — a daughter — Griffin found herself worried about looming medical bills and u...

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A Few Miles From the US Capitol, Dozens Slept in Their Cars, Waiting for Free Care

TAKOMA PARK, Md. — Friday night lights took on a whole new meaning at a high school here in this suburb of Washington, D.C. Instead of fans packing stadium bleachers to watch football, on th...

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Snap Reaches Settlement In Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of Trial

Snap has settled a lawsuit brought by two teenagers who alleged Snapchat was deliberately designed to be addictive and contributed to their mental health problems, avoiding a trial that was schedul...

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Losing Weight in Your 50s May Protect Your Heart Health Later in Life

Losing weight during midlife may benefit cardiovascular health for years to come, researchers say. adamkaz/E+/Getty Images Adults who lost more than 5% of their body weight in their early ...

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Why Cancer Biomarker Testing Is Personal for Mark-Paul Gosselaar

After seeing people in his life face cancer diagnoses, the “Saved by the Bell” star is speaking out about the importance of biomarker testing and sharing how his approach to managing his own health...

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Georgia Helped Inspire the Medicaid Work Rules. Its Own Rules Could Soon End.

After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living i...

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A GOP Congressman Backed Medicaid Work Requirements. His Voters Might Be Exempt.

When U.S. Rep. David Valadao defended voting for a bill aimed at reducing Medicare spending by billions, the Republican noted his role in securing a key provision that will require some adult benef...

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JACKSON THOMPSON: Abdul El-Sayed suggests males in girls' sports is manufactured issue

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed said he was "not running to govern sports" when asked about transgender athletes during a "60 Minutes" interview, suggesting that the issue is manu...

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Leading Medical Groups Team Up to Redefine Female Heart Health

Women have unique biological components that can make their risk of heart disease higher than that of men. SDI Productions/E+/Getty Images Four medical organizations have published a trio ...

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Foie Gras Is Tearing D.C. Apart

In Washington, D.C., voters are thinking more than they usually would about ducks. The most contentious question on the ballot in the nation’s capital this midterm-election cycle is a referendum on...

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The ‘Cuteservative’-in Chief

Inside a podcast studio at Turning Point USA’s headquarters last month, a former witch sat in a pink velvet armchair, telling Alex Clark about the demon that stalked her house. Even though this sel...

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How Non-Dairy Creamers Doubled Coffee’s Calories For Many Americans

Recent research shows that additions to coffee have increased its calorie content by 40%. Boy_Anupong · Moment/Getty The average number of calories U.S. adults consumed from coffee beverag...

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Letter From the Editor-in-Chief: What a Decade of Bedtime Stories Taught Me About Health

Healthline Editor-in-Chief Robin Hough reads a bedtime story with his children, Amelia and Henry. Photo courtesy of Robin Hough. October is Health Literacy Month: a reminder that even the ...

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