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Trump Won’t Force Medicaid to Cover GLP-1s for Obesity. A Few States Are Doing It Anyway.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Page Campbell’s doctor recommended she try an injectable prescription drug called Wegovy to lose weight before scheduling bariatric surgery, she readily agreed. ...

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How Climate Change Affects Your Gut Health

If you’re like a lot of people, you’re finding it harder and harder to stomach climate change—literally. A warming world leads to all manner of health problems, including increased ri...

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New salmonella outbreak tied to same Florida grower with tainted cucumbers last year

U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak of salmonella illnesses tied to a Florida grower whose tainted cucumbers were linked to more than 500 illnesses last yearU.S. health officials...

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FDA sets new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children

Federal health officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots for younger adults and children who are healthyWASHINGTON -- Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and chi...

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Trump Thinks He Knows What Started the Pandemic

The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins comes in many forms. Here is Donald Trump’s: A scientist in Wuhan walked outside to have lunch, maybe with a girlfriend or something. “That’s how it leaked...

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Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes

All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutionsIt’s Saturday afternoon and my friend’s five-year-old daughter is lying next to...

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Nebraska to ban soda and energy drinks from SNAP under first USDA waiver

Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the food benefit program for low-income Americans long known as food stampsNebraska is th...

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Authorities analyzing nihilistic writings of suspect in California fertility clinic bombing

Investigators are combing through the writings of a 25-year-old man believed responsible for an explosion that ripped through a Southern California fertility clinic over the weekendLOS ANGELES -- I...

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This News Might Ruin Your Appetite — And Summer

It’s a marvel of food technology: ice cream that resists melting. In a video explaining the science behind it, a seller of food chemicals shows scoops of ice cream holding...

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Trump Exaggerates Speed and Certainty of Prescription Drug Price Reductions

Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.” President Donald Trump, in a May 11 post on Truth Social President Donald Trump...

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How the Trump Administration Aims To Slash Health Care Spending

Health care has proved a vulnerable target for the firehose of cuts and policy changes President Donald Trump ordered in the name of reducing waste and improving efficiency. But most of the impact ...

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Why Biden may not have known about his 'aggressive' prostate cancer until recently

Former President Joe Biden's office announced on Sunday that he was diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer.Biden's office also said the cancer had metastasized, spreading to his bon...

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The MAHA Crowd Is Already Questioning Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.It took just a few hours for devotees of the “Make America healthy again” movement to question former Presid...

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What to know about prostate cancer after former President Joe Biden's diagnosis

Former President Joe Biden's office announced on Sunday that he was diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer.Biden's office said the cancer was diagnosed after "increasing urinary sym...

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Zepbound More Effective for Weight Loss Than Wegovy, Eli Lilly Trial Shows

Tirzepatide (Zepbound) led to more weight loss than semaglutide (Wegovy) in a clinical trial funded by Eli Lilly. Shelby Knowles/Bloomberg/Getty Images Zepbound outperformed Wegovy for we...

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WHO opens annual assembly as UN health agency faces 'existential crisis'

The World Health Organization is opening its annual meeting of government ministers and other top envoys facing one of the most serious crises of its 77-year history in the wake of Trump administra...

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The US hasn't seen a human bird flu case in 3 months. Experts are wondering why

Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of new human cases have stopped.Has the search for cases been weakened by g...

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Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies

WINNER, S.D. — Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at her local hospital, 10 minutes from her house. Instead, she’s driving more than three hours round trip for her appoi...

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Trump’s DOJ Accuses Medicare Advantage Insurers of Paying ‘Kickbacks’ for Primo Customers

When people call large insurance brokerages seeking free assistance in choosing Medicare Advantage plans, they’re often offered assurances such as this one from eHealth: “Your benefit advisors will...

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Housing, Nutrition in Peril as Trump Pulls Back Medicaid Social Services

During his first administration, President Donald Trump’s top health officials gave North Carolina permission to use Medicaid money for social services not traditionally covered by health insurance...

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Wilson Phillips’ Carnie Wilson on Living With Depression: ‘It Ebbs and Flows’

Carnie Wilson, a member of the ’90s pop group Wilson Phillips, shares her journey with depression. Courtesy of Carnie Wilson Carnie Wilson of the ’90s pop group sensation Wilson Phillips o...

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