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The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people

NEW YORK -- Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people.Many worry about what the future holds, and a daily grind o...

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Labour U-turn on benefits reforms would be embarrassing for Starmer – but a tragedy for taxpayers

Who benefits? KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves insist they will not back down from their planned welf...

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Global vaccination efforts stall, leaving millions vulnerable to preventable diseases

Global efforts to protect children against diseases like measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to deadly infectionsLONDON -- Efforts to vaccinate chil...

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57 Women Share Their Most Frustrating Experiences With Dismissive Doctors

An overwhelming 93% of women have felt dismissed when seeking medical help, according to a survey by FemTech World. It’s frustrating—and honestly, unacceptable—that so many still face this kind o...

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California’s Much-Touted IVF Law May Be Delayed Until 2026, Leaving Many in the Lurch

California lawmakers are poised to delay the state’s much-ballyhooed new law mandating in vitro fertilization insurance coverage for millions, set to take effect July 1. Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked...

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Within an hour of receiving a covid vaccination in November 2020, Utah preschool teacher Brianne Dressen felt pins and needles through her arms and legs. In the medical odyssey that followed, she s...

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Experts warn RFK Jr. is unraveling the system that kept vaccines safe

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee is set to meet this week for the first time since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all o...

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‘Ozempic Penis’: Males Are Reporting a Surprising New GLP-1 Side Effect

A growing number of males on Reddit are claiming that GLP-1 drugs have increased their penis size. Kupicoo/Getty Images Male Reddit users are reporting what they call “Ozempic penis,” with...

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Texas will put warning labels on some foods, but its additives list has inaccuracies

DALLAS -- A new Texas law promoting the Trump administration's “Make America Healthy Again” agenda requires first-ever warning labels on foods like chips and candies that contain dyes and additives...

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Exercising or playing sports in extreme heat can be extremely dangerous

Extreme heat makes it especially hard for your body to cool down, so you need to be extra careful if you exercise or play sports when it’s baking outsideExtreme heat makes it especially hard for yo...

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5 Takeaways From Health Insurers’ New Pledge To Improve Prior Authorization

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insu...

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How extreme heat impacts people with mental illness

As triple-digit temperatures hit the East Coast, individuals with a mental illness -- specifically those who take prescribed medication -- are at risk for heat intolerance, with psychiatric hospita...

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The number of abortions kept rising in 2024 because of telehealth prescriptions, report finds

A new report finds that the number of abortions in the U.S. grew in 2024 as more women obtained pills through telehealthThe number of abortions in the U.S. rose again in 2024, with women continuing...

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Early-season heat dome brings highest temperatures in years to parts of Eastern US

NEW YORK -- An intense and nearly historic weather pattern is cooking much of America under a dangerous heat dome this week with triple-digit temperatures in places that haven't been so hot in more...

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How can RFK Jr ‘Make America healthy again’? He is ignoring the two biggest killers of American children | Devi Sridhar

The US health secretary’s latest report is more interested in vaccine scepticism than the brutal toll inflicted by guns and road traffic accidents“Make America healthy again”. We can all get behind...

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

GREENVILLE, Miss. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does every Sunday. In a few days, he would drive from Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to join ...

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Push To Move OB-GYN Exam Out of Texas Is Piece of AGs’ Broader Reproductive Rights Campaign

Democratic state attorneys general led by those from California, New York, and Massachusetts are pressuring medical professional groups to defend reproductive rights, including medication abortion,...

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What to expect from the upcoming CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting with RFK Jr.'s new members

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee is set to meet for the first time since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed the entire pa...

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FDA Approves 'Breakthrough' Twice-Yearly Injection to Prevent HIV

Yeztugo is a twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV that could improve adherence rates compared to other PrEP medications. d3sign/Getty Images The FDA has approved lenacapvir, a twice-yearl...

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RFK Jr.’s Big Chance to MAHA the American Diet

Every five years, America’s top nutrition experts jockey to be part of a rite of passage in the field. The federal government chooses a small group of researchers to serve on a committee that spend...

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Living Without Health Insurance? We Want To Hear From You

Millions of Americans lack health insurance, and health policy researchers expect many more will lose coverage due to policies pushed by the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress. ...

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