Health

Farm Bureau Plans Are a Less Pricey Alternative to ACA Coverage — With Trade-Offs

Robin Carlton pays about $650 a month for a plan on the Missouri health insurance exchange that covers him and his two teenage kids. That monthly total is $200 hig...

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States Face Another Challenge With Medicaid Work Rules: Staffing Shortages

Katie Crouch says calling her state’s Medicaid agency to get information about her benefits can feel like a series of dead ends. “The first time, it’ll ring interminably. ...

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Artificially-Sweetened Drinks Help Promote Weight Loss, but Water Is Best

Artificial sweeteners may help you lose weight, but water remains the best choice for overall health. Stefania Pelfini la Waziya/Getty Images A new study reports that replacing sugary beve...

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These Are the Worst U.S Cities for Spring Allergies in 2026, Ranked

If you live in one of the top 20 U.S. cities for spring allergies, here’s what you can do to cope. Image Credit: Liliya Rodnikova/Stocksy The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA...

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About 20 per cent of gen Z and millennial Canadians still spank their kids. Is that even legal?

Spanking isn’t a bygone, outmoded form of parenting in Canada, according to a new study that finds a sizeable proportion of millennial and gen Z parents are spanking their kids. When asked wh...

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Urgent Care Clinics Move To Fill Abortion Care Gaps in Rural Areas

MARQUETTE, Mich. — Providing abortions was the last thing Shawn Brown thought she’d be doing when she opened an urgent care clinic in this remote town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. ...

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Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records

The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families. A brief notice from t...

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Why Most Medication Apps Fail ADHD Brains

You download a medication tracker, spend twenty minutes setting it up, and stop opening it by Thursday. The problem isn't you. It's that most ADHD medication app design demands the exact cognitive ...

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How This 16-Year-Old Helped His Family Thrive After Dad’s Colon Cancer Diagnosis

Dylan Kurtz (right) with his parents and brother. Photography courtesy of Dylan Kurtz As colorectal cancer increases among people under 50, more children may experience watching a parent f...

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How the Whole-Grain Trend Went Wrong

Refined grains can be a dangerous business. They are digested quickly, flooding the bloodstream with a wave of sugar and stressing the pancreas, the latter of which compensates by producing spikes ...

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FDA Approves Foundayo, a Wegovy Alternative GLP-1 Pill for Weight Loss

The FDA has approved a new once-daily GLP-1 pill for weight loss. Image Credit: Healthline/Photo by Eli Lilly Federal regulators have approved the GLP-1 tablet Foundayo for use in weight m...

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The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral

After George Mallon had his blood drawn at a routine physical, he learned that something may be gravely wrong. The preliminary results showed he might have blood cancer. Further tests would be need...

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Can I Opt Out of Having My Doctor Take Notes With AI?

LISTEN: AI scribes are changing medical care. Here’s what to know if the technology shows up at your next doctor’s appointment. Family physician Eric Boose has been using an artifi...

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This Northern Cheyenne Doula Was About To Start Getting Paid — Then Medicaid Cuts Hit

LAME DEER, Mont. — Misty Pipe had about an hour before her shift began at the post office. She used that time to check in on a new mom who lives a few miles outside this town at the heart of the No...

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Around Half the ADHD and Autism Content You See on TikTok May Be Misleading

New research finds that a significant number of videos about ADHD, autism, and various mental health conditions on social media platforms like TikTok are misleading or inaccurate. Maria Korneeva/Ge...

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Immigrant Seniors Lose Medicare Coverage Despite Paying for It

OAKLAND, Calif. — Rosa María Carranza leaned forward to hold a 3-year-old’s back as the girl climbed a rock in the forested hills of northeast Oakland. Dressed in hiking g...

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These Women Had Their Breasts Removed To Thwart Cancer. Then Came the Pain.

Three weeks after Sophia Bassan’s mastectomy, she felt a stabbing pain beneath her right armpit. In the following months, painful shocks radiated through her chest and back. Her body became so sens...

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The Man Holding MAHA Together

Tony Lyons knows how Republicans can win the midterm elections later this year. All they need to do, as he explained in a memo to GOP leaders in February, is embrace the Make America Healthy Again ...

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79 Unsettling Mysteries That Continue To Fascinate And Disturb

There’s just something about a good mystery that pulls us in — stories about people going missing, strange paranormal encounters, unidentified bodies turning up out of nowhere, or events that just ...

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The people who plan everything aren’t controlling. They’re managing a nervous system that learned early that surprise means danger.

In 1971, when NASA was preparing for the Apollo 15 mission, flight surgeons noticed something odd about astronaut Jim Irwin during pre-flight medical evaluations. His resting heart rate was unusual...

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Young Adults With High Blood Pressure Face Higher Risk of Heart, Kidney Disease

High blood pressure in people ages 30 to 40 may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease later in life. Image Credit: Cavan Images/Getty Images Research shows that young adults with hig...

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