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Eliminating Daylight Saving Time Could Help Lower Obesity, Stroke Rates

A new study suggests that staying in standard time or staying in daylight saving time is better for overall health than switching the clocks twice a year. Getty Images/blackCAT New researc...

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The Nation’s Largest Food Aid Program Is About To See Cuts. Here’s What You Should Know.

The Trump administration’s overhaul of the nation’s largest food assistance program will cause millions of people to lose benefits, strain state budgets, and pressure the nation’s food supply chain...

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America’s Grocery Lifeline Is Fraying

During America’s hardest economic times, canned goods were a lifeline. From 1929, the start of the Great Depression, to 1941, when the United States entered World War II, people ate nearly 50 perce...

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Deal or No Deal? States Prepare for Congress To Act at the Last Minute on Obamacare

Saturday is the day that nearly 24 million customers can start purchasing health plans on healthcare.gov and the state-run Obamacare exchanges. Higher prices and uncertainty await many of t...

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Maine abortion clinics to end primary care services after being denied Medicaid funding

One of Maine's largest abortion care providers is ending primary care services on Friday after a court ruled that the Trump administration is not required to restore Medicaid funding.Maine Family P...

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At The Hollow in Florida, the ‘Medical Freedom’ Movement Finds Its Base Camp

VENICE, Fla. — MAGA and MAHA are happily married in Florida, and nowhere more at home than in Sarasota County, where on a humid October night a crowd of several hundred gathered to honor state Surg...

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Better Treatments Buoy Multiple-Myeloma Patients, Bound by Research Cuts and Racial Disparities

For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had rul...

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Weight Loss Drugs Like Ozempic Are Lowering the U.S. Obesity Rate

The U.S. obesity rate is declining as more people turn to GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. Bloomberg/Getty Images A new Gallup poll indicates that the rate of obesity among U.S. adults has dec...

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Happy Open Enrollment Eve!

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie's stories. ...

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Breast cancer survivor says her ACA premiums will more than double if tax credits aren't extended

Paula Graham said ACA coverage is "critical" for her ongoing care.In Oct. 2024, Paula Graham was diagnosed with breast cancer. Two months later, she had a mastectomy as part of her treatment.Graham...

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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has no idea why Nebraska is a great album

Nebraska is one of the great American records. Not just because of its rusted-knife lyrics, its haunted vocals, its guitar-string echoes and the sounds of harmonicas disappearing over the horizon—i...

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New deaths and illnesses reported in listeria outbreak tied to recalled pasta meals

Two new deaths and more illnesses have been reported in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to precooked pasta meals sold in grocery stores in many statesTwo new deaths and seven more illne...

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Debunking 8 claims about breast cancer screening: What every woman needs to know about detection

When it comes to early detection, mammograms remain the only screening test proven to reduce deaths from breast cancer in average-risk women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

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Refugees will be among the first to lose food stamps under federal changes

This is a KFF Health News story.After fleeing the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, Antoinette landed in the Atlanta area last November and began to find her footing with federal help.Sepa...

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How conspiracy theories infiltrated the doctor’s office

As anyone who has googled their symptoms and convinced themselves that they’ve got a brain tumor will attest, the internet makes it very easy to self-(mis)diagnose your health problems. And althoug...

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Patients go without needed treatment after government shutdown disrupts a telehealth program

MINOOKA, Ill. -- Bill Swick has a rare degenerative brain disease that inhibits his mobility and speech. Instead of the hassle of traveling an hour to a clinic in downtown Chicago to visit a speech...

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Alaska Supreme Court is weighing a case that could decide who can provide abortion care in the state

JUNEAU, Alaska -- The Alaska Supreme Court is weighing a case that is expected to determine who can provide abortion care in the state. The court heard arguments Wednesday in a 2019 case challengin...

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California Faces Limits as It Directs Health Facilities To Push Back on Immigration Raids

In recent months, federal agents have camped out in the lobby of a Southern California hospital, guarded detained patients — sometimes shackled — in hospital rooms, and chased an immigrant landscap...

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The Quiet Collapse of America’s Reproductive Health Safety Net

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many...

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Head Start programs serving nearly 65,000 kids at risk of closing amid government shutdown

Tens of thousands of children and families could be affected by dozens of Head Start programs potentially closing if the federal government shutdown extends past Nov. 1.About 134 programs across 41...

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Anxiety over global warming leading some young Americans to say they don't want kids

Amanda Porretto isn't sure she'll ever have children.At 27, she is the average age of new mothers in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She's feeling th...

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