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TikTok's 'Cozymaxxing' Trend Could Improve Your Mental Health, Experts Say

Cozymaxxing is a snuggly self-care practice that TikTok users are touting as an antidote to stress. Anastasiia Krivenok/Getty Images “Cozymaxxing” is a new self-care trend on TikTok focuse...

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CDC nominee Dave Weldon is likely to be pressed on his vaccine views at Senate hearing

NEW YORK -- Dr. David Weldon had been out of the national spotlight for more than 15 years when he was nominated to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But many anti-vaccine advoca...

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What are ultraprocessed foods? Are they bad for you?

In the Trump administration’s quest to “Make America Healthy Again,” there may be no bigger target than ultraprocessed foods.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has cited “hig...

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RFK Jr. Exposes A Truth That Could Bankrupt The Antidepressant Industry

RFK Jr. Exposes A Truth That Could Bankrupt The Antidepressant Industry Via VigilantFox.com, RFK Jr. is pulling back the curtain on a reality that could shake the pharmaceutical i...

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Some CT Scans Deliver Too Much Radiation, Researchers Say. Regulators Want To Know More.

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most val...

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An Arm and a Leg: Medical-Debt Watchdog Gets Sidelined by the New Administration

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history. It issued rules barring medical debt from Americans’ credit re...

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Sent Home To Heal, Patients Avoid Wait for Rehab Home Beds

After a patch of ice sent Marc Durocher hurtling to the ground, and doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center repaired the broken hip that resulted, the 75-year-old electrician found himself at a cr...

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RFK Jr.’s Strategies for Containing Measles Outbreak Include Vitamin A, Cod Liver Oil

Health experts have raised concerns about HHS Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s strategies for containing measles outbreaks in Texas and other parts of the U.S. RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images ...

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CDC Will Study Whether Vaccines Cause Autism, Despite Scientific Consensus

Despite a unanimous scientific consensus, health experts are once again defending the safety of childhood vaccines and so-called autism risk. Sean Locke/Stocksy United The CDC will conduct...

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A Great Way to Get Americans to Eat Worse

The wonder of the American supermarket is the way it exists outside of seasons. Stroll into any major grocery store on a dreary winter day, and you’ll find a bounty of fresh summer fruits and veget...

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The Pandemic’s Biggest Missed Opportunity

In the early evening of March 7, 2020, I was on my cellphone in an airport terminal, telling a friend that I was afraid to write an article that risked ruining my journalistic reputation. I had bee...

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The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles

Photographs by Jake DockinsPeter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking lot of a Mennonite church on the outskirts of Seminole, a small city in West Texas surrounded by cotton and peanut fie...

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5 years ago, the WHO declared COVID a pandemic. Here's a look at the disease by the numbers

Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global outbreak of COVID-19 to be a pandemic.Since then, millions of Americans have been hospitalized, and more than ...

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What we still don't know about COVID 5 years after the WHO declared a pandemic

Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, leading to stay at-home orders and shutdowns across the U.S. and world.The nation looks much different...

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Thought Inflation Was Bad? Health Insurance Premiums Are Rising Even Faster

Kirk Vartan pays more than $2,000 a month for a high-deductible health insurance plan from Blue Shield on Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace. He could have selected a c...

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Under Trump, Social Security Resumes What It Once Called ‘Clawback Cruelty’

A year ago, a new head of Social Security set out to stop the agency from financially devastating many of the people it was meant to help. The agency had l...

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Nursing Homes and the AMA, Once Medicaid Defenders, Hang Back as GOP Mulls Big Cuts

When congressional Republicans in 2017 pushed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid, dozens of physician groups, patient advocates, hospitals, and others rallied to defend the law an...

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Majority of the world's population breathes dirty air, report says

Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of global cities meeting WHO air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday foundBENGALURU, India -- Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cit...

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Trump Health Care Proposal Billed as Consumer Protection But Adds Enrollment Hoops

The Trump administration issued its first major set of proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act on Monday that federal officials said are intended to crack down on fraud in the program. Policy e...

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Your Neighbor Has Backyard Chickens. Should You Be Worried?

If your neighbor is a backyard chicken hobbyist, should you be worried about bird flu? KFF Health News national public health correspondent Amy Maxmen answers that question and shares her reporting...

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Utah will be the first state to ban fluoride in drinking water

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah will become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, despite widespread opposition from dentists and national health organizations.Republican Gov. Spencer Co...

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