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Intermittent Fasting May Promote Weight Loss, Improve Hormones in PCOS

Research suggests that intermittent fasting may aid in weight loss by improving hormones in people with PCOS. Image Credit: Evgeniia Siiankovskaia/Stocksy A recent study has found that int...

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How To Make a High-Deductible Health Plan Work for You

An elementary school teacher chose a low-price health insurance plan but soon realized she wasn’t clear about what it would mean for her family’s finances. “Once I got the insuranc...

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Pennsylvania Town Faces Fallout From Trump’s Environmental Rule Rollback

North America’s largest coke plant hugs the west bank of Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River, belching out emissions from turning superheated coal into a carbon-rich fuel. Re...

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Decades-Long Study Blows Up Narrative That 'Gender Reassignment' Prevents Suicide

Decades-Long Study Blows Up Narrative That 'Gender Reassignment' Prevents Suicide Authored by Tim O'Brien via PJ Media, One of the most common talking points from the left is that...

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How This Active Mom of 2 Is Thriving With ‘Chemo-Resistant’ Colon Cancer

Heather Kaiser was diagnosed with early onset colon cancer at 42, but continues to lead a full and healthy life. Image Credit: Healthline/Photo by Heather Kaiser Heather Kaiser was diagnos...

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Medicaid Cuts Could Force More Kids to Become Caregivers

—Constantinis—Getty ImagesWhen I was just 13-years-old, my mother suffered a traumatic brain injury at work, and I was forced to become her caregiver. No one came to help us; there was no support ...

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A Shot to Lose Weight, Then a Pill to Keep It Off

By most measures, the new GLP-1 pills are underwhelming. Earlier this month, the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly debuted a weight-loss tablet that is far less effective than its popular injectable c...

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Prescription Drug Content On Social Media Often Misleading, Study Finds

A recent study found that social media influencers who promote prescription drugs may often share misleading information. Image Credit: Lucas Ottone/Stocksy A recent review suggests that s...

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Metformin May Offer Similar Benefits as Exercise for Those With Prostate Cancer

The diabetes drug metformin may provide similar results to exercise in people with prostate cancer. Image Credit: Brothers91/Getty Images A common diabetes drug may mimic one key effect of...

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38 Best Sims 4 Mods To Download In 2026

Now in its 12th year, The Sims 4 just keeps chugging along, dropping two or three new major DLC expansions each year with no indication it'll stop any time soon. Indeed, EA just launched an in-game...

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Some IBS Treatments May Be Linked to Slightly Higher Risk of Early Death

A new study linked certain medications that treat irritable bowel syndrome to a higher risk of early death, but the overall risk is low. Laura Herrera/Stocksy Researchers say some medicati...

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The Trump Administration Is Seeking Federal Workers’ Sensitive Medical Data. That’s Raising Alarms.

About a year ago, I was stationed in downtown D.C. on an especially chilly spring day, watching hundreds of federal employees line up outside their office buildings. In a humbling exercise,...

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Children going through family courts face increased risk of self-harm, new research finds

Family courts step in at some of the hardest moments in a child’s life, when parents separate or when there are concerns about their safety. We already know that children involved in care procee...

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Ye Wants Your Forgiveness. So What?

When canceled became a common label applied to basically anyone who’d done anything to offend anyone, it had many unfortunate effects. One was rolling transgressions as serious as sexual assault an...

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For Many Patients Leaving the ICU, the Struggle Has Only Just Begun

The accident happened in Pittsburgh on Nov. 16. Joseph Masterson, a lawyer who was just days from retiring at age 63, suffered cardiac arrest while driving, plowed into a guardrail, and lost consci...

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Watch: As AI Makes More Health Coverage Decisions, the Risks to Patients Grow

This year, executives from nearly every major health insurance company made the same declaration in calls with Wall Street analysts: Using artificial intelligence to make coverage decisions would h...

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Abortion Pill Mifepristone Still Available By Mail (For Now), Federal Judge Says

A Louisiana judge refused to block access to the abortion pill Mifepristone by mail. lawsuit Joe Raedle/Getty Images A federal judge paused a Louisiana lawsuit challenging mail-order mifep...

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Abortion Pills, the Budget, and RFK Jr.

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

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Is a Cure for Osteoarthritis on the Horizon? New Therapies Show Promise

New therapies for osteoarthritis could help joints heal and regenerate, rather than just treat symptoms. Luis Velasco/Stocksy A government agency says that several promising osteoarthritis...

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The Biggest Hope for Curing Autoimmune Disease

By the time Fabian Müller met the patient at the center of his newest research paper, he was fairly certain that an experimental treatment was her last hope. The patient, a 47-year-old mother of tw...

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How does Medicare’s new Mental Health Check In work? Is this low-intensity CBT likely to help?

If you’ve been struggling with your mental health lately, a new free service could help. Medicare Mental Health Check In launched earlier this year to give more Australians access to mental health ...

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