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Testosterone Therapy Helped Jelly Roll Lose Weight. Could It Help You Too?

Country music star Jelly Roll revealed that Testosterone Replacement Therapy played a key role in his weight-loss journey. Image credit: Matt Jelonek/Getty Images Jelly Roll says Testoster...

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Common Gout Medication May Help Lower Heart Attack, Stroke Risk

A common gout medication may help lower the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with gout. Image Credit: smartstock/Getty Images Researchers say that allopurinol and other drugs used...

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Chinese Adults Taking Strange AI Devices to Bed With Them

China is a country defined by major contradictions. The nation is governed by a communist party that has carefully embraced market forces as part of a long transition away from capitalism. Against ...

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Healthgrades Names America’s Best Hospitals for 2026

Healthgrades has announced the Best Hospitals in the U.S. for 2026. Image Credit: Vero/Stocksy Healthgrades has recently released its annual list of the top 250 hospitals in the United Sta...

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OpenAI is retiring GPT-4o, and the AI relationships community is not OK

In a replay of a dramatic moment from 2025, OpenAI is retiring GPT-4o in just two weeks. Fans of the AI model are not taking it well."My heart grieves and I do not have the words to express the ach...

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Trump’s Covid Views Don’t Track With Reality That Recent Studies Suggest

More than two years since the official end of the covid pandemic, a growing body of research continues to reveal information about the virus and its ability to cause harm long after initial infecti...

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Younger Males May Face Higher Heart Attack Risk, 7 Years Before Females

New research indicates that men in their 30s may have a higher risk of heart attack compared to females. Image Credit: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images A recent study found that younger males d...

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‘I Can’t Tell You’: Attorneys, Relatives Struggle To Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees

Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale...

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Blurry Line Between Medical and Vision Insurance Leaves Patient With Unexpected Bill

Barbara Tuszynski was concerned about her vision but confident in her insurance coverage when she went to an eye clinic last May. The retiree, 70, was diagnosed wi...

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Will T-Maxxing Ever End?

Some of the country’s most powerful men are panicking about testosterone levels. Tucker Carlson’s 2022 documentary The End of Men blamed declining testosterone for the supposedly rampant emasculati...

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Low Dose Aspirin Not Tied to Cancer, but May Raise Cancer-Related Death Risk

A new study shows daily aspirin use doesn’t impact cancer incidence but may raise the risk of cancer-related mortality. coldsnowstorm/Getty Images Researchers say that a daily routine of l...

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: The Hazards of ICE for Public Health

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

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Are You a Night Owl? Your Cardiovascular Disease Risk May Be Higher

New research suggests that night owls may have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. Image Credit: Ani Dimi/Stocksy Night owls, people who tend to go to bed later, may be at greater ris...

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Polio Was That Bad

In the United States, polio is a memory, and a fading one at that. The last major outbreak here happened in 1952; the virus was declared eliminated in 1979. With all of that behind us, you can see ...

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Her Son’s Injury Never Got Its Day in Vaccine Court. Their Lawyer Is Now Advising RFK on Its Overhaul.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 2019, after a routine vaccination, 11-year-old Keithron Thomas felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and down his arm. His mother, Melanie Bostic, thought it would go away after...

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Medicare Advantage Insurers Face New Curbs on Overcharges in Trump Plan That Reins in Payments

Medicare Advantage health plans are blasting a government proposal this week that would keep their reimbursement rates flat next year while making other payment changes. ...

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America’s Convenience-Store Conundrum

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a new rallying cry: Eat real food. It’s an intuitive piece of advice—snack on some grapes instead of potato chips, trade that microwaveable mystery meat for a grilled chic...

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Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Will Have Obesity by 2035. What Can Be Done?

Obesity rates in the U.S. are projected to rise over the next decade, but lifestyle strategies that may help reverse the trend. Robert DEYRAIL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Researchers pred...

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When Suicidal Calls Come In, Who Answers? Georgia Crisis Line Response Rates Reveal Gaps

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Kaitlin Cooke of Cartersville, Georgia, was ...

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Pediatricians Release Child Vaccine Recommendations That Break With CDC

The AAP has released new vaccine guidance that counteracts the recent CDC updates. Image Credit: FatCamera/Getty Images The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued an updated childhood...

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SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, January 28

Justice Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish justice, was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson on this day in 1916. SCOTUSblog executive editor Zach Shemtob recently gave a Jewish...

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