Health

How Medicaid Contractors Stand To Gain From Trump’s Policy

States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a law that will strip safety-net health and food b...

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No, That Viral 'Parasite Cleanse' Won't Actually Detox Your Body. Here's Why

Social media influencers are touting so-called “parasite cleanses,” claiming they rid the body of toxins. Maria Korneeva/Getty Images Social media users claim that “parasite cleanses” usin...

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Doctors Dismissed Her Digestive Symptoms as Diet-Related. It Was Crohn’s Disease

Jamie Harris (right) with her mother (left). Photo Jamie Harris Jamie Harris was in her 20s when she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. She shares her journey from symptoms and dia...

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Tax Time Brings Surprises for Some Who Receive ACA Subsidies

Tax time can come with big surprises for some people who have Affordable Care Act coverage, including owing money back to the government for premium subsidies received during the previous year. ...

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Listen: What the Vaccine Schedule Whiplash Means for Your Kids

LISTEN: After a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to pare down childhood vaccine recommendations, plenty of questions remain — like how annual vaccines for the flu will get a...

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: GOP Mulls More Health Cuts

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

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New Dietary Guidelines Highlight 9 Simple Ways to Lower Heart Disease Risk

The American Heart Association released updated dietary guidance suggesting that following 9 key steps may significantly improve cardiovascular health and reduce the risk of heart disease. Alexande...

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A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the landmark social media addiction trials that just resulted in two major verdicts against Big Tech. There’s one case in New Mexico against Met...

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Men’s wellbeing groups are growing - and helping fill gaps in mental health support

Pressure on mental health services across the UK is leaving many men without timely support when they need it most. Men in the UK die by suicide at more than three times the rate of women. There...

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Teen Daughter Outplays Control Freak Mom With Hilariously Evil Revenge For Tracking Her On A Trip

Worrying about your kids is normal for any parent. As long as those thoughts and feelings don’t grow into something overbearing, of course. Like, a desire to start secretly tracking them. In this ...

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State-Run Insurance Plans for Foster Kids Leave Some of Them Without Doctors

Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care. Now 8, the second grader is dealing with it again. Her cancer came back ...

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US Scientists Sequence 1,000 Genomes From Measles, a Disease Long Eliminated With Vaccines

This week, the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention posted online its first large tranche of advanced genetic data from measles viruses spreading last year. Scientists with knowledge of the ...

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Walking May Be More Effective When Combined With Strength Training, Other Activities

Walking is the most popular physical activity in the U.S., but experts say this might not be enough to maintain fitness levels. Image Credit: Luke Mattson/Stocksy Researchers report that w...

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Exercising Harder, Not Just Longer, May Lower Your Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Research suggests that how hard you work out may be just as important as how long you work out. Image Credit: The Good Brigade/Getty Images A few minutes of harder exercise each day may dr...

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After Man’s Death Following Insurance Denials, West Virginia Tackles Prior Authorization

Six months after a West Virginia man died following a protracted battle with his health insurer over doctor-recommended cancer care, the state’s Republican governor signed a bill intended t...

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HHS Officials’ Year in Purgatory Is Ending

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services finally followed through on a plan it first outlined for several of its top officials nearly a year ago: It reassigned them to positions in th...

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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act Darkens Outlook for Government-Backed Clinics

Bluestem Health, a clinic that serves low-income and uninsured patients in Lincoln, Nebraska, has lost money for the last two years. And CEO Brad Meyer fears times will so...

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Readers Sound Off on NIH Staff Cuts, Work Requirements, and More

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. ‘The Federal Government’s Lo...

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Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows

Stanford computer scientists just proved what therapists already suspected: AI chatbots will agree with almost anything you say to keep you happy. The researchers caught these systems validating da...

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Free Speech Experts: Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Panic Is As Old As Democracy Itself

We’ve been saying for years now that Jonathan Haidt’s crusade against social media and kids is a moral panic dressed up in academic robes, and that the evidence simply does not support the sweeping...

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The Family That Has No Stomachs

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.“What do you mean, you just take the stomach out?” Karyn Paringatai wondered, when doctors first said her st...

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