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Mallory Berry was ready to give up. It was 2019, and her addiction—prescription opioids had led her to heroin—had left her bedridden. An infection had eaten ...
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Twice a week, Mohamed Attiya’s wheelchair rattles over Gaza’s scarred roads so he can visit the machine that is keeping him aliv...
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Unless you make a habit of closely reading nutrition labels—or watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s YouTube channel—you might not realize just how much tartrazin...
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SAN DIEGO -- The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that Mexico must stop the flow of billions of gallons of sewage and toxic chemicals...
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HELENA, Mont. — As Republican legislative leaders in Montana girded for this year’s battle over whether to extend Medicaid expansion in the state, they took ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low inco...
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While the most serious measles epidemic in a decade has led to the deaths of two children and spread to 27 states with no signs of letting up, beliefs about ...
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Young adults should get screened for colon cancer, especially if they have symptoms or a family history of the disease. Maskot/Getty Images Real sto...
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Imagine a world where your smartwatch doesn’t just count your steps but also predicts health problems before they get serious. That’s the power of AI in wear...
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Eboni Tomasek expected to take home her newborn the day after he was born in a San Jose hospital. But, without explanation, hospital staff said they needed t...
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They’re the fixers, the ones who step in when Affordable Care Act enrollees have a problem with their coverage, like a newborn incorrectly left off a policy ...
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Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, died Monday morning at age 88.The pontiff had been suffering from health problems over the past several week...
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After a two-month delay, a CDC panel met last week to discuss vaccine guidelines for COVID-19, RSV, HPV, and other infectious diseases. Luis Alvarez/Getty Im...
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Jorm Sangsorn/ShutterstockIf you ever find yourself stuck in repeated cycles of negative emotion, you’re not alone. More than 40% of Australians will ex...
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Californians can now buy opioid reversal drugs directly from the state under a program aimed at making the life-saving medication less expensive and more acc...
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The assisted living facility in Edina, Minnesota, where Jean Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. “But then you start uncoverin...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has halted a court-ordered medical parole program, opting instead to send its most incapacitated prisoners back to state lock...
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At least 27 states have reported at lease one case in 2025.Louisiana, Virginia and Missouri all reported their first measles cases of 2025 this weekend, with...
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ATLANTA -- ATLANTA (AP) — Allergy season can be miserable for tens of millions of Americans when trees, grass, and other pollens cause runny noses, itchy eye...
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Many plant-based proteins are less digestible and may have lower concentrations of one or more essential amino acids. Kseniya Ovchinnikova/Getty Images ...
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The White House has redirected COVID.gov to a new landing page called "Lab Leak: True Origins of COVID-19," which makes a five-point argument for the theory ...