Health

South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect of Vaccine Misinformation

BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. — Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in ear...

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After Shutdown, Federal Employees Face New Uncertainty: Affording Health Insurance

Larry Humphreys, a retired Federal Emergency Management Agency worker in Moultrie, Georgia, says he and his wife won’t be traveling much next year after their monthly health insurance premium payme...

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Trump Almost Unveils a Health Plan

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

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Smoking Cannabis Linked Could Help Some People Drink Less, Study Finds

A new study found that smoking cannabis before drinking led participants to drink less. Aaron McCoy/Getty Images Smoking cannabis before drinking can significantly curb how much people cho...

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Early treatment of sleep apnea may reduce risk of Parkinson's disease: Study

Early treatment of obstructive sleep apnea -- a condition that causes breathing to briefly pause -- may decrease the risk of Parkinson's disease, a new study published Monday finds.For the study, p...

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US cases of norovirus on the rise with double the rate of positive tests since August

Nearly 14% of tests came back positive compared to 7% three months ago.Cases of norovirus are rising across the United States, doubling over the last few months, according to updated data from the ...

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Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through his Sherlock Holmes stories

Conan Doyle in 1914. Wiki Commons/Canva, CC BY-SAArthur Conan Doyle was not just one of the world’s best crime fiction writers. He was a progressive wordsmith who brought light to controversial and...

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The Populist Approach to the Opioid Crisis Can Save Millions of Lives

Over the past decade, the overdose crisis has killed more than half a million people in the United States. As fentanyl has proliferated, more Americans have shared their own harrowing stories...

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More People Are Caring for Dying Loved Ones at Home. A New Orleans Nonprofit Is Showing Them How.

Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be. Dunnebacke lay still atop a folding table that was dressed as a...

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Not Serious Enough To Turn on the Siren, Toddler’s 39-Mile Ambulance Ride Still Cost Over $9,000

Elisabeth Yoder’s son, Darragh, was 15 months old in August when he developed what at first looked to his parents like hand, foot, and mouth disease. The common viral infection generally clears up ...

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White House circulates plan to extend Obamacare subsidies as Trump pledges fix

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is circulating a proposal that would extend subsidies to help consumers pay for coverage under the Affordable Care Act for two more years, as million...

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IATSE Launches Healthcare Initiative for Touring Professionals: Here’s How It Will Work

For touring professionals in the live music industry, healthcare has long been an elusive benefit. While local stagehands working in venues across ...

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More than 25,000 cases of whooping cough recorded this year, higher than pre-pandemic levels: CDC

Deaths from whooping cough have been recorded in Louisiana and Washington.More than 25,000 cases of whooping cough have been recorded in the U.S. so far this year, updated federal data shows.This m...

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'Catch Kits' for Fetal Remains Are Republicans' Latest Dystopian Plan To Punish Abortions

Are abortions poisoning us all? That's the latest line of attack from Republicans in Wisconsin and elsewhere, with lawmakers arguing that wo...

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Going to Bed At the Same Time Every Night May Help Lower Blood Pressure

A regular bedtime may be a simple, low risk, adjunctive strategy for blood pressure management. DragonImages/Getty Images Researchers report that a regular bedtime schedule can help lower ...

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Food banks, pantries say they're still seeing surge even after SNAP benefits restored

Although SNAP benefits returned for millions of Americans after the federal government shutdown ended earlier this month, food banks and pantries across the U.S. are still seeing droves of people s...

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Long COVID’s hidden toll: the South Africans still battling fatigue, anxiety and memory loss

“I feel better, but my mind isn’t the same.” Four years after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, such comments are still heard regularly in many medical practices in South Africa. What began as a...

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What's next in the fight to curb climate change, now that talks in Brazil have ended

BELEM, Brazil -- After an agreement from U.N. climate talks in the Amazon that fell short of many nations' expectations, experts found some bright spots alongside weighty reasons for worry in the f...

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Kids and Teens Go Full Throttle for E-Bikes as Federal Oversight Stalls

LOUISVILLE, Colo. — E-bike of Colorado sales manager Perry Fletcher said his sales and repair shop saw an increase in back-to-school sales to young riders and families this fall as the popularity o...

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Kennedy Sharpens Vaccine Attacks, Without Scientific Backing

As the federal government prepares for the next meeting of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has intensified his attacks on...

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The Most Powerful Man in Science

Photographs by Elinor CarucciRobert F. Kennedy Jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places. “I always had the feeling that we were all involved in some gr...

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