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The 75 Soft Challenge may help lower stress and anxiety and promote healthy weight management. Me 3645 Studio/Getty Images
Proponents of the “75 Soft Challenge” on TikTok say it’s a more d...
Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicin...
Texas has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the country, with more than 2.7 million Texans diagnosed with the condition. About one in six people in San Antonio have type 2 diabetes, and a thi...
Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Republicans need to free up roughly $4 trillion to pay for ...
Visits to doctors' offices for flu-like illness fell to 6.8% from 7.7%.Flu activity remains "elevated" in the United States but is starting to show signs of abating, according to new federal data p...
“Sobering” Sheffield research shows that overheated care homes lead to elderly people’s deaths in extreme heat The Star
Journalists Discuss Health Care for Incarcerated Children and the Possibility of a Bird Flu Pandemic
KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed the possibility of a bird flu pandemic on WAMU’s “1A” on Feb. 20. Gounder also discussed the potential of an off-label dru...
Cartons of frozen shakes sold to nursing homes and other institutions are being recalled after an outbreak of listeria linked to the productsFebruary 22, 2025, 10:56 AMCartons of frozen shakes sold...
PARIS -- France is about to hold its largest-ever child sex abuse trial. While just one man is in the dock — a former surgeon accused of raping or sexual abusing 299 people, mostly child patients —...
Ethnicity and mental health impact brain health in rural older adults News-Medical.Net
YORK, Pa. -- A man armed with a pistol and carrying zip ties entered a Pennsylvania hospital's intensive care unit Saturday and took staff members hostage before he was killed by police in a shooto...
Bovard: Can Kennedy Save Kids From Psychiatric Ravage?
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President Trump issued an executive order last week creating a Make America Healthy Again Commission...
The Top 5 Financial Scams Targeting Seniors National Council on Aging
Everyone is vulnerable to experiencing poverty and deprivation, which can lead to deficient diets that can contribute to mental and physical health problems.
VANNES, France -- A former surgeon is set to stand trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what investigators ...
Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency.
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HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for Medicaid, Montana’s Republican-led legislature and GOP governor appear ready to keep the sta...
Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid. But what exactly is it?
Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities, is inte...
Walter Carpenter walks across the ski resort’s dining room on a knee that needs to be replaced and a hip that’s going bad. Lumbering into the kitchen, he deposits a brown bin of dirty...
In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus woul...
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