Health

What Makes a Doctor Excel at Diagnosis?

Gurpreet Dhaliwal sat onstage in a hotel ballroom in Minneapolis. The gray curtains behind him were illuminated by bright blue lights, giving the slightest hint of performance at an otherwise typic...

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Benefits of mindfulness meditation go far beyond relaxation – here’s what it is and how to practice it

Mindfulness meditation is a process of noticing difficult thoughts and feelings rather than shutting them out. Marco VDM/E+ via Getty ImagesImagine being asked to sit alone in a quiet room for 15 m...

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Women Who Stay Active During Midlife Have 50% Lower Risk of Early Death

Staying physically active during midlife can improve health and longevity. Morsa Images/Getty Images A new study reports that midlife exercise can cut women’s risk of early death in half. ...

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MAHA Has Been Given an Impossible Task

When he was interviewed onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked a question unlikely to be on anyone’...

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Why a social media ban for teenagers misses the point

Pressmaster/Shutterstock.comTaylor Little became so badly addicted to her smartphone that she felt she had lost many of her teenage years. “I was literally trapped by addiction at age 12 and lost ...

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Trump’s Hunt for Undocumented Medicaid Enrollees Yields Few Violators

Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with ord...

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States Pay Deloitte, Others Millions To Comply With Trump Law To Cut Medicaid Rolls

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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2 to 3 Cups of Coffee Daily May Help Lower Stress, Improve Mental Health

Recent research found that drinking 2 to 3 cups of coffee a day may reduce the risk of stress and mood disorders. Image Credit: Andrew Cebulka/Stocksy A recent study found that moderate da...

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Decades of putting others first – the toll it takes on women’s bodies

Giulio_Fornasar/Shutterstock.comMidlife can bring an unsettling realisation for many women: the years spent caring for others, raising children, managing work, running households and maintaining f...

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Explained: Why OpenAI is retreating from ‘erotic’ ChatGPT?

OpenAI has abandoned its plans to develop an “erotic” mode for ChatGPT according to a report by Financial Times. This is the third such product retreat by the AI company in recent days. Last week, ...

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Mind-Body Practices Like Qigong, Yoga May Help Treat Hypertension

Foreign trainees learn Baduanjin, a traditional breathing and stretching exercise, in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 7, 2025. Image credit: Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images A re...

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Inside the High-Stakes Corporate Fight Over Feeding Preterm Babies

In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. ...

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She Owed Her Insurer a Nickel, So It Canceled Her Coverage

Last summer, Lorena Alvarado Hill received a series of unexpected medical bills. A teacher’s aide in Melbourne, Florida, Hill is a single mom who works shifts at J...

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Is it wrong to send your kid to private school?

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multi...

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The next social media ban? Austria looks to block kids under 14 from social media

Less than 4 months ago, Australia banned social media for kids under 16, sparking a wave of similar proposals from governments around the world. The latest effort to ban social media for children n...

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Don’t Get Sucked Into the War on Lice

The human head louse has a ghostly quality. It tends to glimmer in and out of view, leaving only subtle signs and omens of its presence. Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff? Was ...

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Marc Andreessen’s Mistake

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In this worn, domesticated world of ours, there are few truly pristine wildernesses, remote regions where no...

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How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial

Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companiesWhen Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sought to defen...

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How to Know Yourself

In this worn, domesticated world of ours, there are few truly pristine wildernesses, remote regions where no man has gone before, places unseen by human eyes and unexamined by human exploration. An...

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Food Safety in America Just Hit a New Low

Raw Farm does not sell your typical cheddar. A one-pound block of the aged, GMO-free cheese retails for $16. (Naturally, it’s for sale at Erewhon, the high-end grocery chain.) Some people are willi...

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Kim Kardashian's New Energy Drink Promises No Jitters. Does It Live Up to the Hype?

Kim Kardashian has released a new energy drink with paraxanthine instead of caffeine. Image credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images Kim Kardashian has launched a new energy drink called ...

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