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What Foods Make You Happiest? Hint: It’s Not What You Think

Research shows that certain foods can affect your mood in different ways, including making you happier. Image Credit: Ani Dimi/Stocksy Research shows that certain foods can affect your moo...

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An Arm and a Leg: A Few More Good Things From 2025

An Arm and a Leg host Dan Weissmann breaks down how two states passed laws aimed at protecting people from things like medical debt, insurance delays and denials, and corporate profiteering. ...

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Social media for healthcare: Strategies for Australian providers

Healthcare providers in Australia face unique challenges online, including strict AHPRA compliance rules and small teams with limited time. Social media is the tool to bridge those gaps. With the ...

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The 9th Circuit Upholds a University of Washington Professor's Right to Mock 'Land Acknowledgments'

A decade ago, the University of Washington (U.W.) adopted an official statement that "acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, th...

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Eating Nuts May Help Reduce Food Cravings, Promote Weight Management

Young adults with a higher risk of metabolic syndrome may benefit from eating nuts, researchers say. fcafotodigital/Getty Images A new study suggests that swapping high carb snacks for nut...

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Addiction-stricken community struggles to keep a syringe program going after Trump's order

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. -- Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to sh...

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New drug may slow progression of ALS in small group of patients: Study

A new drug may slow progression of -- and even reverse -- symptoms of a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a new study published Monday finds.The drug, tofersen, targets a very sp...

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Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed. “That’s what I’m trying to avoid,” said Ferguson, who still calls Quincy Jackson III...

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Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths. Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work.

BALTIMORE — David Fitzgerald knows how tough it is to prevent gun violence. In 15 years working in some of Baltimore’s deadliest neighborhoods for a program called Safe Streets, he said, he’s defus...

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Medicaid Health Plans Step Up Outreach Efforts Ahead of GOP Changes

ORANGE, Calif. — Carmen Basu, bundled in a red jacket and woolly scarf, stood outside the headquarters of her local health plan one morning after picking up free groceries. She had brought her husb...

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Strangers With Vitamins? Amy Sedaris Shares How She Boosts Her Brain Health

From multivitamins to crafting with friends, the ‘Strangers With Candy’ star shares her recipe for staying mentally sharp and young at heart. Actor and comedian Amy Sedaris shares her approa...

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Journalists Zero In on ‘Certificate of Need’ Laws and Turbulent Obamacare Enrollment Season

KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed gun violence in Bogalusa, Louisiana, on KALW’s Your Call on Dec. 19. Click here to hear Rayasam on Your Call. Read Raya...

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State Exchange Directors Seeing Consumers’ Fears — In Real Time — About Obamacare Premium Hikes

I’ve been checking on the progress of the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment season, which is happening as Congress continues to debate whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers ...

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What Trump's executive order on marijuana could mean for medical research

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The order moves cannabis from a Schedule I drug, a category that includes heroi...

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Nearly 5 million flu illnesses reported so far nationally, latest CDC data shows

New York City is seeing some of the highest levels in the country.Flu activity is increasing across the country, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.New...

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The Botched Rollout of Trump’s Autism Miracle Drug

If President Donald Trump wanted Americans to take away one message about autism, it was this: Blame Tylenol. During his September press conference on the subject, Trump warned pregnant women more ...

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7 Ways to Improve Heart Health for Longevity After Cancer Diagnosis

A heart-healthy lifestyle can help promote longevity following cancer treatment. Tatiana Maksimova/Getty Images Researchers say that people who have undergone cancer treatment can decrease...

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Guns Marketed for Personal Safety Fuel Public Health Crisis in Black Communities

PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back nearly two decades ago, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. The bul...

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States Advance Medical Debt Protections as Federal Support Turns to Opposition

Lawmakers in several states are working to expand medical debt protections for patients, even after the Trump administration reversed course and told states they don’t have authority to take action...

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Scorpion Peppers Caused Him ‘Crippling’ Pain. Two Years Later, the ER Bill Stung Him Again.

Maxwell Kruzic said he was in such “crippling” stomach pain on Oct. 5, 2023, that he had to pull off the road twice as he drove himself to the emergency room at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Dur...

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Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordina...

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