Health

How Do We Feel About Women's Work?

Stay-at-home moms: Reader, let me take your hand and guide you to a realm of the internet that I inhabit, which you probably don't even know...

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A New Option for Long-Term Care Costs

Kelly Haggett figures that a mandatory surcharge added to Washington state’s payroll tax cost her about $500 last year. But she doesn’t really mind. “On a scale of 1 to 10 of my annoyance wi...

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They Harvest the Nation’s Food, but a New Rule May Strip Them of Health Insurance

Seasonal work. Inconsistent hours. Frequent moves. Cash payments and informal jobs. For farmworkers who rely on Medicaid, these common employment patterns could put their health coverage at risk. ...

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The Newest Way to Go Analog

When the iPod Nano was first released, in 2005, it cost $199 and was sold on the promise of limitlessness. This year, Celeste Stange bought her magenta 8-gigabyte model on eBay for $69 and the exac...

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Sniffing Chocolate Could Boost Your Leg Day Workouts and Curb Hunger

Smelling dark chocolate before and during workouts may help you perform more repetitions and reduce hunger after exercise, new research finds. Getty Images Smelling dark chocolate before a...

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What if It’s Not the Phones?

When the 82-year-old psychologist Peter Gray describes the way he grew up, he punctuates the anecdotes by saying that modern parents would be arrested for letting a child have such fun. When he was...

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My Search for a Psychiatric Bed in an Overburdened Health System

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Eight days before my 33rd birthday in Ap...

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No Link Between Prenatal Tylenol Use and Autism, ADHD, Multiple Studies Confirm

Research shows that there is no link between taking Tylenol during pregnancy and a higher risk of autism and ADHD. Image Credit: Getty Images In September 2025, the Trump administration su...

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Losing Just 78 Minutes of Sleep a Night Over 6 Weeks May Lead to Weight Gain

A new study found that adults who slept about 78 fewer minutes each night for six weeks gained nearly a pound and became more sedentary, highlighting the important role sleep plays in maintaining a...

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Patients Face a Thicket of Red Tape Trying To Maintain Consistent Health Coverage

By the time Derion Blackman collapsed in front of a Dollar General in Kissimmee, Florida, in March, he had been waiting two months to regain access to some of the vital medications he’d been taking...

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Affordable Care Act Insurers Want More Premium Increases as Enrollment Sags

For the second year in a row, many Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing double-digit premium increases, driven by rising medical costs as well as policy changes by Congress and the Trump admi...

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5 Cups of Coffee Daily May Lower Your Liver Disease, Cancer Risk By 47%

Recent research has found that drinking coffee may help reduce your risk of liver disease and cancer. Image Credit: GNDphotography/Getty A recent study has shown that drinking coffee may h...

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Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete. But pundits, activists, and members of the Trump administration have long insisted that the case is closed, and...

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Food poverty, stress and housing insecurity: what happens when your parent is detained or deported

A drawing by a child whose parent was detained. Author provided/A Ripple Effect of Suffering, CC BY-SAEmma* was just a baby when her dad was deported following the cancellation of his Australian vi...

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Heart Attack Risk 31% Lower for People with Strong Chest, Back Muscles

Research shows that stronger, better quality back and chest muscles may reduce the risk of a heart attack. Image Credit: minamoto images/Stocksy A recent study found that people with stron...

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The Genes That Could Cancel Out a Fatal Diagnosis

When Ludivine Verboogen and Romain Alderweireldt’s third child was born in Belgium in late 2015, they marveled at his long fingers. Perhaps one day he will be a famous pianist, they thought. But so...

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Copay Assistance Is Meant To Defray Patient Drug Costs. Some Insurers Keep It Instead.

For 16 years, Larry Gruber, a fitness coach from Wilton Manors, Florida, received a coupon card to help him pay for a psoriatic arthritis medication he needs that costs more than $7,700 a month. ...

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Thousands of Medicare Beneficiaries Thought Their Drug Plan Was Free. Then They Lost It.

Jude Pare and his partner, Diane Tix, live in rural Minnesota until temperatures dip below freezing, when they take refuge in Arizona for the winter. While away, their mail is forwarded. But Pare, ...

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Generic Mounjaro, Zepbound May Be Coming, Rivaling Current GLP-1s

Federal regulators have agreed to review a Swiss pharmaceutical company’s applications for two cheaper generic versions of Zepbound and Mounjaro. MK Photo/Alamy Stock Photo Federal regulat...

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‘Explosive Diarrhea Parasite’ Spreading Across 17 States, CDC Warns. How to Reduce Your Risk.

The CDC has reported a spread of a parasitic infection that causes diarrhea across 17 states, with a large cluster in Michigan. Image Credit: Catherine McQueen/Getty The CDC is raising con...

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Doctors say 8 forgotten habits could help fight stress, obesity and chronic disease

Rates of chronic disease, obesity and stress continue to rise across America.Experts warn that some of the healthiest habits from the nation's earlier centuries may have fallen by the wayside.From ...

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