Health

Why getting vaccinated protects more than just you

Health experts say vaccine-created herd immunity safeguards more people.As some politicians continue to emphasize personal choice when it comes to vaccinations, doctors and infectious disease speci...

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Xi and Putin's hot mic moment: How long will science extend the human life span?

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have discussed the potential for scientific advances to extend human lifeBEIJING -- Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia President Vla...

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He Built Michigan’s Medicaid Work Requirement System. Now He’s Warning Other States.

It was March 2020, and Robert Gordon was about to kick some 80,000 people off health insurance. As the Michigan state health director, he had spent the past year, and some...

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Trump Administration Investigates Medicaid Spending on Immigrants in Blue States

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Trump administration is taking its immigration crackdown to the health care safety net, launching Medicaid spending probes in at least six Democratic-led states that provid...

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RFK Jr. Faces Senate Finance Committee: A Live Discussion

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony before the Senate Finance Committee follows the ouster last week of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...

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Heart Failure: Weight Loss Drugs Lower Risk of Hospitalization, Death by 40%

Weight loss drugs could help improve health outcomes in people with heart failure. The Good Brigade/Getty Images Researchers report that the weight loss drugs semaglutide and tirzepatide c...

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Florida pediatrician warns vaccine mandate removal could harm vulnerable residents

Dr. Lisa Gwynn said the plan could lead to outbreaks of preventable diseases.A top Florida pediatrician warned Thursday that the state's plan to eliminate all vaccine mandates could lead to outbrea...

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How woke Gen Z could learn from coal miners, reveals Reform UK’s Lee Anderson as he explains simple rule he lives by

WAKING at 4am to work 14 hours down a dark and dangerous pit was standard practice for legions of coal min...

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Too many Brits think it is ‘fashionable to have mental health problems’, blasts Reform MP Lee Anderson

TOO many Brits think it is “fashionable to have mental health problems”, Reform MP Lee Anderson has blasted. The Red Wall firebrand is today expected to use his party...

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The fat jab postcode lottery laid bare – interactive map reveals UK’s ‘Mounjaro black holes’ as NHS rollout stalls

NOT a day goes by without fat jabs hitting the headlines – but when the NHS announced that they would be m...

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A Different RFK Jr. Just Appeared Before Congress

Some Republican senators, it seems, have begun to fret that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was not being entirely honest when he sought their votes to confirm him as secretary of Health and Human Services. ...

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Using your phone on the toilet raises your risk of hemorrhoids, study suggests

Researchers investigated the bathroom habits of 125 adults.People who use their smartphones while sitting on the toilet face are at higher risk for painful, itchy hemorrhoids, according to new rese...

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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will oversee a revision of the US dietary guidelines — including the guidance on drinking alcohol. | Chip Somodevilla/Get...

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Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian ‘hero rats’ sniffing out danger and disease

MOROGORO, Tanzania -- A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, ...

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Texas lawmakers approve letting private citizens sue abortion pill providers

Texas lawmakers on Wednesday approved letting private citizens sue abortion pill manufacturers, doctors and anyone who mails the medication, setting the state up to be the first to try to crack dow...

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RFK Jr.’s Victory Lap

This spring, months before the recent dramatic departures from the CDC, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. battled with the agency’s scientists during the very first public-health crisis of his tenure as health...

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Fighting a Health Insurance Denial? Here Are 7 Tips To Help

When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to ease her neurological pain, she prepared for battle. ...

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As Insurers Struggle With GLP-1 Drug Costs, Some Seek To Wean Patients Off

After losing 50 pounds on the injectable weight loss medication Zepbound, Kyra Wensley received a surprising letter from her pharmacy benefit manager in April. Her request...

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Listen: Limiting Benefits and Adding Restrictions, ‘MAHA’ Reshapes Food Aid

LISTEN: Carrot or the stick? Some nutritionists say incentives are the best way to improve the diets of low-income Americans on food aid, while the Trump administration seems focused on restriction...

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Eating Meat Not Associated With Higher Risk of Early Death, Study Finds

A new study suggests that eating meat could slightly lower cancer-related death risk. Davide Illini/Stocksy United A new study has found no increased death risk from eating plant or animal...

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Changes at NIH give political appointees greater power to fund or block research

This is a KFF Health News story.The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world's largest bio...

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