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Teen Daughter Outplays Control Freak Mom With Hilariously Evil Revenge For Tracking Her On A Trip

Worrying about your kids is normal for any parent. As long as those thoughts and feelings don’t grow into something overbearing, of course. Like, a desire to start secretly tracking them. In this ...

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State-Run Insurance Plans for Foster Kids Leave Some of Them Without Doctors

Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care. Now 8, the second grader is dealing with it again. Her cancer came back ...

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US Scientists Sequence 1,000 Genomes From Measles, a Disease Long Eliminated With Vaccines

This week, the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention posted online its first large tranche of advanced genetic data from measles viruses spreading last year. Scientists with knowledge of the ...

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Walking May Be More Effective When Combined With Strength Training, Other Activities

Walking is the most popular physical activity in the U.S., but experts say this might not be enough to maintain fitness levels. Image Credit: Luke Mattson/Stocksy Researchers report that w...

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Exercising Harder, Not Just Longer, May Lower Your Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Research suggests that how hard you work out may be just as important as how long you work out. Image Credit: The Good Brigade/Getty Images A few minutes of harder exercise each day may dr...

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After Man’s Death Following Insurance Denials, West Virginia Tackles Prior Authorization

Six months after a West Virginia man died following a protracted battle with his health insurer over doctor-recommended cancer care, the state’s Republican governor signed a bill intended t...

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HHS Officials’ Year in Purgatory Is Ending

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services finally followed through on a plan it first outlined for several of its top officials nearly a year ago: It reassigned them to positions in th...

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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act Darkens Outlook for Government-Backed Clinics

Bluestem Health, a clinic that serves low-income and uninsured patients in Lincoln, Nebraska, has lost money for the last two years. And CEO Brad Meyer fears times will so...

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Readers Sound Off on NIH Staff Cuts, Work Requirements, and More

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. ‘The Federal Government’s Lo...

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Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows

Stanford computer scientists just proved what therapists already suspected: AI chatbots will agree with almost anything you say to keep you happy. The researchers caught these systems validating da...

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Free Speech Experts: Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Panic Is As Old As Democracy Itself

We’ve been saying for years now that Jonathan Haidt’s crusade against social media and kids is a moral panic dressed up in academic robes, and that the evidence simply does not support the sweeping...

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The Family That Has No Stomachs

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.“What do you mean, you just take the stomach out?” Karyn Paringatai wondered, when doctors first said her st...

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What Makes a Doctor Excel at Diagnosis?

Gurpreet Dhaliwal sat onstage in a hotel ballroom in Minneapolis. The gray curtains behind him were illuminated by bright blue lights, giving the slightest hint of performance at an otherwise typic...

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Benefits of mindfulness meditation go far beyond relaxation – here’s what it is and how to practice it

Mindfulness meditation is a process of noticing difficult thoughts and feelings rather than shutting them out. Marco VDM/E+ via Getty ImagesImagine being asked to sit alone in a quiet room for 15 m...

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Women Who Stay Active During Midlife Have 50% Lower Risk of Early Death

Staying physically active during midlife can improve health and longevity. Morsa Images/Getty Images A new study reports that midlife exercise can cut women’s risk of early death in half. ...

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MAHA Has Been Given an Impossible Task

When he was interviewed onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked a question unlikely to be on anyone’...

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Why a social media ban for teenagers misses the point

Pressmaster/Shutterstock.comTaylor Little became so badly addicted to her smartphone that she felt she had lost many of her teenage years. “I was literally trapped by addiction at age 12 and lost ...

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Trump’s Hunt for Undocumented Medicaid Enrollees Yields Few Violators

Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with ord...

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States Pay Deloitte, Others Millions To Comply With Trump Law To Cut Medicaid Rolls

States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a law that will strip safety-net health and food b...

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2 to 3 Cups of Coffee Daily May Help Lower Stress, Improve Mental Health

Recent research found that drinking 2 to 3 cups of coffee a day may reduce the risk of stress and mood disorders. Image Credit: Andrew Cebulka/Stocksy A recent study found that moderate da...

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Decades of putting others first – the toll it takes on women’s bodies

Giulio_Fornasar/Shutterstock.comMidlife can bring an unsettling realisation for many women: the years spent caring for others, raising children, managing work, running households and maintaining f...

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