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HEALTH NEWS


Mental Health
38 minutes ago

How psychedelics could help treat anxiety and depression

Read full article: How psychedelics could help treat anxiety and depression
Mother's Day
27 minutes ago

Thanks, mom! Things we inherit from our mothers whether we like it or not

Read full article: Thanks, mom! Things we inherit from our mothers whether we like it or not
Kidney donor Nija Butler and kidney recipient Ambrealle Brown are photographed the day before graduating from Baton Rouge General's School of Nursing on April 28, 2025 in central Louisiana. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)
6 hours ago

Daughter says mom 'gave me life twice' with kidney donation as pair graduate nursing school together

Read full article: Daughter says mom 'gave me life twice' with kidney donation as pair graduate nursing school together
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens during a meeting with Peru's Foreign Affairs Minister Elmer Schialer and Peru's Minister of Defense Walter Astudillo at the Pentagon, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
12 hours ago

Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order

Read full article: Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order

The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify.

FILE - A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
13 hours ago

US infant mortality dropped in 2024. Experts partly credit RSV shots

Read full article: US infant mortality dropped in 2024. Experts partly credit RSV shots

The nation’s infant mortality rate is falling.

FILE In this Feb. 6, 2020 file photo, a man buys a face mask at a pharmacy in Kitwe, Zambia. Zambia faces a Friday deadline to clear debt owed to external investors who have rejected the country's request for deferral of an overdue $42.5 million interest payment amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Emmanuel Mwiche/File)
15 hours ago

US says it will reduce health aid to Zambia because medicines were stolen and sold

Read full article: US says it will reduce health aid to Zambia because medicines were stolen and sold

The United States will cut $50 million worth of medical aid a year to Zambia because of “systematic” theft of the aid in past years and the government’s failure to crack down on corruption.

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
21 hours ago

Cancer before age 50 is increasing. A new study looks at which types

Read full article: Cancer before age 50 is increasing. A new study looks at which types

A new U.S. government study provides the most complete picture yet of early-onset cancers, defined as cancer diagnosed before age 50.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., make statements to reporters ahead of vote in the House to pass a bill on President Donald Trump's top domestic priorities of spending reductions and tax breaks, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
23 hours ago

GOP centrists revolt against steep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump's tax breaks bill

Read full article: GOP centrists revolt against steep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump's tax breaks bill

As Republican leaders draft President Donald Trump’s big bill of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, dozens of more moderate Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.

FILE - The U.S. Social Security Administration office is seen in Mount Prospect, Ill., Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
23 hours ago

More older Americans worry Social Security won't be there for them, an AP-NORC poll finds

Read full article: More older Americans worry Social Security won't be there for them, an AP-NORC poll finds

A poll finds that as the Social Security Administration undergoes massive changes and staffing cuts ushered in by the Trump administration, an increasing share of older Americans, particularly Democrats, aren’t confident the benefit will be available to them.

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20 hours ago

Prescription risk: These medications could increase your dementia risk

Read full article: Prescription risk: These medications could increase your dementia risk

They are supposed to make you feel better, but did you know some of the medicines in your cabinet could be putting you at risk for dementia?

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
17 hours ago

Aid group closes soup kitchens across Gaza due to dwindling supplies

Read full article: Aid group closes soup kitchens across Gaza due to dwindling supplies

A U.S.-based aid group says that Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza has forced the closure of its community soup kitchens.

FILE - Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megan Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
1 day ago

Donald Trump taps wellness influencer close to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for surgeon general

Read full article: Donald Trump taps wellness influencer close to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for surgeon general

President Donald Trump is tapping Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
1 day ago

House GOP backing off some Medicaid cuts as report shows millions of people would lose health care

Read full article: House GOP backing off some Medicaid cuts as report shows millions of people would lose health care

House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
1 day ago

US Health department will analyze data from autistic Medicare, Medicaid enrollees, RFK Jr. says

Read full article: US Health department will analyze data from autistic Medicare, Medicaid enrollees, RFK Jr. says

The U.S. Health and Human Services department will start a research project to examine medical data and records of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees who have been diagnosed with autism, health secretary Robert F.

FILE - A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rests on a table at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
1 day ago

Moderna study shows immune response in older adults for a combo flu and COVID-19 shot

Read full article: Moderna study shows immune response in older adults for a combo flu and COVID-19 shot

A combination shot for flu and COVID-19 using messenger RNA generated antibodies in a company-funded study.

LIVE HEALTHY


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Alcohol raises risk of heart disease in women, study finds

Read full article: Alcohol raises risk of heart disease in women, study finds
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What happens if you stop taking weight-loss drugs?

Read full article: What happens if you stop taking weight-loss drugs?

TALKING HEALTH


The latest segments from Dr. Scot Ackerman

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1 day ago

Is your diet contributing to your anxiety?

Read full article: Is your diet contributing to your anxiety?

Foods that are “anxiety promoters” include highly processed foods, fried foods, fast food, foods with lots of sugar or caffeine and alcohol.

FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
2 days ago

Critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures to lead FDA vaccine program

Read full article: Critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures to lead FDA vaccine program

The Food and Drug Administration says that a prominent medical contrarian and critic of the drug industry will head its vaccine center.

FILE - A sign with the company's logo stands outside a Rite Aid store in Salem, N.H., on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
2 days ago

What customers can expect as Rite Aid closes or sells all its drugstores

Read full article: What customers can expect as Rite Aid closes or sells all its drugstores

Rite Aid customers can expect their local store to close or change ownership in the next few months as the struggling drugstore chain goes through another bankruptcy filing.

FILE - Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, speaks during a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 24, 2025. (Roman Levchkenko/UNAIDS via AP, file)
2 days ago

UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears

Read full article: UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears

The United Nations agency that fights HIV says it plans to slash its workforce by more than half as a result of sweeping funding cuts from longtime donors in the United States, Asia and Europe.

A patient receives a dental procedure at Salt Lake Donated Dental Services, a clinic serving low-income Utah residents, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)
2 days ago

How Utah dentists are preparing patients for the first statewide fluoride ban

Read full article: How Utah dentists are preparing patients for the first statewide fluoride ban

Utah dentists say they’re bracing for an increase in tooth decay among the state’s most vulnerable people.

FILE - A worker welds a section of the F-111 class frigate's fuselage at a workshop in the Navantia shipyard in Ferrol, northwest Spain, on April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
2 days ago

Spanish bill to cut workweek to 37.5 hours heads to parliament after receiving government approval

Read full article: Spanish bill to cut workweek to 37.5 hours heads to parliament after receiving government approval

Workers in Spain may soon have 2.5 more hours of weekly rest after the government approved a bill that would reduce the workweek from 40 hours to 37.5 hours.

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2 days ago

Your sister’s pregnancy can alert you to your heart disease risk

Read full article: Your sister’s pregnancy can alert you to your heart disease risk

When a woman gets pregnant, doctors tell her to take certain precautions to ensure she and her baby remain healthy. But now there’s another person whose health matters as well…

Spencer Goidel, an Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist with the Internal Revenue Service who was notified his job would be eliminated as part of the government's efficiency cuts, stands for a portrait outside his home in Boca Raton, Fla., April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Daniel Kozin)
2 days ago

Disabled workers have faced prejudice. Now they face DOGE firings

Read full article: Disabled workers have faced prejudice. Now they face DOGE firings

Layoffs of disabled workers across the federal government are raising questions about its commitment to inclusion.

Andrea Watkins, left, and Dr. Andrea Holmes, right, co-owners of Kind Life Dispensary that sells an array of products containing hemp-based THC, poses for a photo in their shop in Lincoln, Neb., May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)
2 days ago

A GOP Nebraska bill would criminalize hemp-based THC. Opponents say it could make grandma a felon

Read full article: A GOP Nebraska bill would criminalize hemp-based THC. Opponents say it could make grandma a felon

A bill winding its way through the Nebraska Legislature would criminalize the sale and possession of an array of products containing hemp-based THC.

FILE - Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson participates in an election forum, in Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
3 days ago

Michigan governor candidate says miscarriage prompted her to prioritize reproductive health access

Read full article: Michigan governor candidate says miscarriage prompted her to prioritize reproductive health access

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is running for governor in 2026 and sharing new anecdotes in her upcoming political memoir, “The Purposeful Warrior,” including her experience with miscarriage.

FILE - The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
2 days ago

Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication

Read full article: Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication

President Donald Trump's administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone.

FILE - This 2009 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a large group of Gram-negative Salmonella typhimurium bacteria that had been isolated from a pure culture. (Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP, File)
3 days ago

New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says

Read full article: New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says

Health officials say at least seven people in six states have been affected in a new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry.

Pope Francis arrives on the popemobile to meet with members of the Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation) Catholic lay movement in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Oct.15, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
3 days ago

Pope Francis donated a popemobile to serve as a mobile health unit for Gaza children

Read full article: Pope Francis donated a popemobile to serve as a mobile health unit for Gaza children

Before he died, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile health unit to serve the children of Gaza, officials said Monday.

FILE - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr speaks during a Make Indiana Healthy Again initiative event in Indianapolis, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)
3 days ago

20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services

Read full article: 20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services

Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.

FILE - The Queen Mary 2 prepares to depart the Red Hook Terminal, bound for Southampton, England, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
3 days ago

How cruise ship passengers can stay safe from the latest version of norovirus

Read full article: How cruise ship passengers can stay safe from the latest version of norovirus

Americans planning cruise ship vacations may have new concerns this spring and summer.

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3 days ago

Woman diagnosed with melanoma on fingernail. What you need to know about this type of skin cancer

Read full article: Woman diagnosed with melanoma on fingernail. What you need to know about this type of skin cancer

Melanoma in situ is not thought to be caused by sun exposure and can also be confused with other medical issues, which is why it’s important to consult with a dermatologist if you notice anything unusual.

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3 days ago

UF Health, United Healthcare reinstate multi-year agreement after months-long stalemate

Read full article: UF Health, United Healthcare reinstate multi-year agreement after months-long stalemate

United Healthcare policy holders can return to UF health, as the two sides came to a multi-year agreement that is now effective.

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3 days ago

Consumer Reports releases its report on the best sunscreens of 2025

Read full article: Consumer Reports releases its report on the best sunscreens of 2025

Consumer Reports just released its exclusive annual sunscreen ratings, putting more than 100 products to the test, and revealing surprising gaps in how they protect you from the sun’s cancer-causing rays.

Experts urge couples to seek help sooner and dispel myths about one of the most common reproductive health issues

1 in 6 couples face infertility: What you need to know

Read full article: 1 in 6 couples face infertility: What you need to know

Infertility affects 1 in 6 couples, yet it’s often left undiscussed. Experts are encouraging open conversations and early medical evaluation to help couples navigate the challenges of starting a family.

Susana Moreira, 41, a degenerative muscular dystrophy patient, looks at her husband in her bedroom in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chilean woman with muscular dystrophy becomes face of euthanasia debate as bill stalls in Senate

Read full article: Chilean woman with muscular dystrophy becomes face of euthanasia debate as bill stalls in Senate

While right-wing populism surges in some of the world’s leading democracies, Chile’s leftist government is rushing in the opposite direction, taking on sensitive, liberal social issues in its waning months.

FILE - Demonstrators hold a rally in support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in front of the agency's headquarters in Atlanta, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, after layoffs were announced. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

Read full article: Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

Dr. Joshua Williams, a pediatrician whose federal funding for a vaccine awareness program was cut, examines 12-year-old patient Tiovian Darden in Denver on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

A community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then the government stopped the study

Read full article: A community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then the government stopped the study

Some Denver parents got texts during this winter's brutal flu season with videos sharing why people in their neighborhoods chose flu shots for their kids.

FILE.- A Palestinian girl struggles as she and others try to get donated food at a distribution center in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana,File)

Desperate children and adults in Gaza struggle to get food as Israel blocks aid

Read full article: Desperate children and adults in Gaza struggle to get food as Israel blocks aid

Young children and adults in Gaza frantically wave pots and pans at charity workers.

FILE - A flu vaccine is displayed at a pharmacy in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File)

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years

Read full article: CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years

More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago.

This undated photo provided by Centivax in 2025 shows Tim Friede, who is hyper-immune to the venom of various snakes, with a water cobra wrapped around his arm. (Centivax via AP)

Snakes have bitten this man hundreds of times. His blood could help make a better treatment

Read full article: Snakes have bitten this man hundreds of times. His blood could help make a better treatment

A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.

Marakah Mancini de Len performs a Reiki treatment near a sign in Spanish reading, Christ is risen, in the sanctuary of St. Pauls-San Pablo Lutheran Church, which recently added wellness sessions as part of its migrant ministry, in Minneapolis, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanna DellOrto)

Altar acupuncture: A Minneapolis church brings well-being sessions to its migrant ministry

Read full article: Altar acupuncture: A Minneapolis church brings well-being sessions to its migrant ministry

A Lutheran church in Minneapolis is taking practical steps to help its mostly Latino immigrant congregation deal with the uncertainty and stress of a Trump administration crackdown.

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Raising change: How to build child-first communities

Read full article: Raising change: How to build child-first communities

In big cities and small towns, families across the country are facing economic struggles, immigration challenges, and the growing impact of our changing environment. But in many communities, families are not just navigating these challenges — they are leading the charge in solutions.

Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo Okeke, a 15 year-old autistic Nigerian, who set a Guinness World Record for the world's largest art canvas, is photograph during an interview in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)

Nigerian teenager sets world painting record with canvas that's bigger than a soccer field

Read full article: Nigerian teenager sets world painting record with canvas that's bigger than a soccer field

A 15-year-old Nigerian has set a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest art canvas in a bid to raise awareness for autism.

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