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Ananda Lewis chose 'natural' cancer care over conventional treatment. Many others do too -- and it's risky

Ananda Lewis, former MTV VJ and TV host, died last week from breast cancer at age 52.After revealing in 2020 that she had been battling breast cancer for more than two years, Lewis announced she wa...

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The 9 life-saving questions to ask your partner, dad or brother NOW – without being accused of nagging

FATHER’S Day is all about appreciating the men in our lives, whether they’re husbands, dads or grandads. And the best present you can give them? We have nine...

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"The Darker, The Better": Why Sleeping In Total Darkness Is A Big Deal

"The Darker, The Better": Why Sleeping In Total Darkness Is A Big Deal Authored by Hadia Zainab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), While sleeping in darkness may seem obvious, r...

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ChatGPT Is Telling People With Psychiatric Problems to Go Off Their Meds

This week, my colleague Maggie Harrison Dupré published a blockbuster story about how people around the world have been watching in horror as their family and loved ones have become obsessed with C...

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HIV: As Scientists Inch Closer to a Vaccine, Cuts to Funding Could Stall Progress

The Trump administration’s plan to cut funding for HIV vaccine research comes at a time when the field is making progress. Victor Torres/Stocksy United The Trump administration reportedly ...

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US measles count nears 1,200 cases as Ohio officials confirm 3 outbreaks are over

The U.S. logged fewer than 30 measles cases this week as Ohio health officials confirmed three outbreaks in two counties were over. There have been 1,197 confirmed measles cases this year, the Cent...

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Journalists Assess RFK Jr.’s Remaking of Vaccine Committee and Trend of Kids Caring for Elders

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed on “CBS Mornings Plus” on June 10 how Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s removal of members of...

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The Most Extreme Voice on RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Committee

Robert Malone has a history of arguing against the data. He has called for an end to the use of mRNA vaccines for COVID despite the well-established fact that they reduce mortality and severe illne...

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US women waiting longer to have children, CDC data shows

Data shows stark differences in maternal age between urban and rural areas.The age of motherhood in America is steadily climbing, with new mothers waiting longer to have their first child, accordin...

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FDA expands approval of Moderna's RSV vaccine to some adults under age 60

The next step is a vote from the CDC's vaccine advisory committee.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded its approval of Moderna's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine on Thursday to i...

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NIH Workers Risk Retaliation by Openly Protesting Trump Policies

Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health — the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world — are openly protesting the Trump administration’s policies regarding the ag...

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CDC Staffing Upheaval Disrupts HIV Projects and Wastes Money, Researchers Say

Dozens of HIV experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received emails on Wednesday revoking notices they received 10 weeks ago that laid them off. Damage to their projects may be ...

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RFK Jr. Is Barely Even Pretending Anymore

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accepted his new position as health secretary, he made a big show of distancing himself from his past life. “News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine or anti-indu...

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COVID-19 patients with reduced kidney function who are vaccinated are more likely to survive: Study

Unvaccinated patients were 5.54 times more likely to die in the hospital.Patients vaccinated against COVID-19 who caught the virus -- and were hospitalized with reduced kidney function -- had bette...

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Kennedy’s HHS Sent Congress ‘Junk Science’ To Defend Vaccine Changes, Experts Say

A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to change U.S. policy on covid vaccines cites scientific studies that ...

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The Best Wellness Advice Has Always Been Free

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Allow me to make myself sound very dainty and attractive: Last year...

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t

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

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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say

Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump’s budget plan would rapidly push more than 300 financially struggling rural hospitals toward a fiscal cliff, ac...

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Second-class dads: The fathers who are fighting to be in their children's lives

Mike Smith played basketball at university, went to nationals a few times, and today is a successful executive in Halifax. But his charmed life was upended when his marriage collapsed and hi...

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Inside the legal fight over the telehealth clinics that help women defy abortion bans

Every month, thousands of women thwart abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to prescribe pregnancy-ending drugs online and ship them anywhere in the country.W...

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Your Dementia Risk May Be Higher Depending on Where You Live

A large study found that dementia risk was lowest in the Mid-Atlantic region and highest in the Southeast. Getty Images A large study of U.S. veterans has found regional differences in dem...

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