Health

RFK Jr. Announces New Food Pyramid Reducing Added Sugars, Processed Foods

Federal health officials say the inverted food pyramid structure in the new dietary guidelines will help make Americans healthier. Mapodile/Getty Images Federal officials have released the...

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California Ends Medicaid Coverage of Weight Loss Drugs Despite TrumpRx Plan

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Many low-income Californians prescribed wildly popular weight loss drugs lost their coverage for the medications at the start of the new year. Health officials are recom...

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Thrift Store. Clinic. Roller Rink. Center Becomes ‘Radical’ Lifeline Amid Homelessness, Drug Crises.

NEW ORLEANS — From the outside, the abandoned Family Dollar store in the Lower 9th Ward looks intimidating. It’s covered in graffiti, with aluminum cans and trash dotting the parking lot. It sits o...

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The Tastiest Meat Americans Can’t Buy

The deer were out there. The crisp tracks in the snow made that clear. Three hours into our hunt through the frigid New Hampshire woods, Ryan Calsbeek, a rangy 51-year-old biology professor at Dart...

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An Expander in Every Child’s Palate

Every night before bedtime, my daughter tilts back her head so that a pair of metal plates inside her mouth can be cranked apart another quarter of a millimeter. We turn a jackscrew with a wire tip...

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5 Books That Will Make You Believe in Magic Again

Craving some mysticism in your mundane life? Here are five books—including both fiction and nonfiction—for when you want to believe in magic again. 1. Healing Ceremonies: Creating Person...

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: New Year, Same Health Fight

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

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Drugmakers Raise Prices on 350 Medications Amid Pressure to Cut Costs

U.S. drug manufacturers are expected to raise prices on at least 350 prescription medications. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A new report states that U.S. drugmakers will increase prices on...

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What Having a Fake Disease Taught Me About Health Care

Every few weeks I turn up in a hospital gown at a medical exam room in Massachusetts and describe a set of symptoms that I don’t really have. Students listen to my complaints of stomach pain, a bad...

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Solving the Home Care Quandary

You’re ready to leave the hospital, but you don’t feel able to care for yourself at home yet. Or, you’ve completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your ...

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An Underappreciated Variable in Sports Success

Chief among the burdens weighing upon the weary sports parent—worse than the endless commutes, the exorbitant fees, the obnoxious parents on the other team—is the sense that your every decision has...

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MAHA Caved

Since he was confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary early last year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has previewed big changes to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans—the government’s go-to guide o...

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Starmer says Reform UK and Tories are in ‘cruel alliance’, as bill to get rid of two-child benefit cap unveiled – UK politics live

The legislation will be introduced today and the government says it will lift almost 500,000 children out of povertyLabour has put out these figures, from the Department for Work and Pensions, show...

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