Health

Hospital Prepayment Requirements Add New Wrinkles to Patients’ Financial Responsibility

Thomas Zordani flew from his home in Denver to Phoenix for a consultation with a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, hoping to find out what could be done to treat his debilitating headaches after worrisome ...

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Trump Orders Changes to Childhood Vaccines Despite Medical Opposition

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (R) looks on as President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order calling for changes to the childhood immunization schedu...

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The Trump Administration's Secret YIMBY Grant Proposal

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: The Trump administration's little-noticed attem...

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'Blue Bloods' star Jennifer Esposito says she was locked in psych ward as health battle spiraled

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Jennifer Esposito is ...

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Mounjaro May Help Protect Heart Health in People With Type 2 Diabetes

Recent research has found that the popular GLP-1 medication, Mounjaro, may help lower heart attack risk in people with type 2 diabetes. Galina Zhigalova · Moment/Getty New research suggest...

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How to Stop Doom Scrolling and Actually Get Your Life Back

If you have ever picked up your phone to check one quick thing and looked up forty-five minutes later wondering what just happened, you already know what doom scrolling feels like. It has a name no...

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Chrissy Metz Loses 100 Pounds After Taking GLP-1 Meds, Despite Risks

Chrissy Metz has lost more weight, but this time, she is revealing a very different part of her health journey. The This Is Us star has opened up about losing another 63 pounds (about 28 kg) after...

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Patients Wary of Governments, Companies Pushing AI as a Rural Healthcare Solution

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. — Two of the nation’s most powerful health officials predict artificial intelligence will play a key role in solving rural America’s health challenges. Health secretary Rob...

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Women With Type 2 Diabetes May Experience Worse Menopause Symptoms

Women with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes report worse menopause symptoms, like hot flashes, a new study found. Justin Paget/DigitalVision/Getty Images Postmenopausal women with type 2 dia...

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Even Light Physical Activity May Lower Stroke Risk in People With AFib

Light physical activity should be integrated alongside treatment for atrial fibrillation (AFib) to improve cardiovascular health. MoMo Productions/DigitalVision/Getty Images Physical activ...

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Mental health: one step forward and two steps back? | Letters

Dr Kate Martin is encouraged by the new network of community clinics, while Prof Dr John R Ashton says the forthcoming mental health strategy is an opportunity to grasp the nettle, while Marjorie W...

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The 108-Degree Eviction

Photographs by Mikayla WhitmoreOn any other day when the high was forecast to be 108 degrees, Susie Tyson would not have left her Las Vegas apartment. The stroke she’d had at 30 made her sensitive ...

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Same Knee Surgery, Twice the Price: Hospital Monopolies Push Up Healthcare Costs

More than a million times a year, a U.S. surgeon slices open a knee, strips out worn cartilage, caps the leg bones with metal, and drops in a plastic spacer to allow the new joint to glide. ...

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Many States Cover Doula Care, but Access to a ‘Birthing Bestie’ Is Often Out of Reach

Doula Taja Iglesias and her business partner have built a space in Alexandria, Virginia, that’s all things pregnancy, birth, and childcare. Comfortable couches in one area invite expectant p...

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta lands in hot soup again

The tobacco industry didn't lose in one courtroom. It lost in dozens of them, over decades, until the cumulative weight became impossible to carry. The lawsuits started as fringe legal theories. Th...

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GLP-1s Like Ozempic, Mounjaro May Lower Fracture Risk in Type 2 Diabetes

GLP-1 medications may help lower fragility-related fracture risk in people with type 2 diabetes. OLEKSANDRA TROIAN · Moment/Getty A new study found that GLP-1 medications may help reduce t...

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Doctors Told Her She Was Too Young for Colon Cancer. She Was Diagnosed at 32

After doctors initially told her she was too young to have colon cancer, Azucena Reyes (pictured above) was diagnosed with stage 3B at age 32. Photos courtesy of Azucena Reyes Colorectal c...

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Journalists Cover Cyclospora and Measles Outbreaks, and Changing Health Policies

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the cyclosporiasis outbreak on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on Aug. 5. Gounder discussed New Mexico’s measles outbrea...

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The Most Basic Step of the Ebola Response Is Falling Short

The fight against Ebola is not going well. Last week, the head of Africa CDC, Jean Kaseya, announced that the ongoing outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had ballooned int...

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Trump Administration Considering Executive Order On Vaccines, Autism

President Trump has pressed top U.S. health officials to place vaccines under scrutiny, calling for more research. Bloomberg/Getty Images The Trump Administration is considering an executi...

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Perez Hilton Hospitalized After Harming Himself on Livestream, Officials Say

Celebrity Blogger Perez Hilton was hospitalized following reports of acts of self-harm that were broadcast on a TikTok livestream. Denise Truscello/Getty Images Blogger Perez Hilton is und...

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