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HEALTH NEWS


FILE - Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, appears in Manhattan state court in New York, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP, File
5 hours ago

Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing said he 'had it coming,' according to prosecutors

Read full article: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing said he 'had it coming,' according to prosecutors
People walk along a pedestrian crossing at a shopping street Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
2 hours ago

Annual births fall to another record low in Japan as its population emergency deepens

Read full article: Annual births fall to another record low in Japan as its population emergency deepens
A woman wears a protective mask while walking along the banks of the Merrimack River, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Lowell, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
10 hours ago

Air quality worsens in eastern US as Canadian wildfire smoke hangs over Midwest

Read full article: Air quality worsens in eastern US as Canadian wildfire smoke hangs over Midwest
FILE - Vials for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine are displayed at a clinic in Lubbock, Texas, on Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File)
9 hours ago

Measles vaccination rates drop after COVID-19 pandemic in counties across the US

Read full article: Measles vaccination rates drop after COVID-19 pandemic in counties across the US

Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with available data.

FILE - Kyleigh Thurman, one of the patients who filed a federal complaint against an emergency room for not treating her ectopic pregnancy, talks about her experience at her studio, Aug. 7, 2024, in Burnet County, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
11 hours ago

Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds

Read full article: Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds

A federal investigation has found that a Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law.

This image provided by The U.S. Safety and Inspection Service shows a package of Organic Rancher ground beef sold at Whole Foods markets that the U.S. agriculture officials are warning may be contaminated with potentially dangerous E. coli bacteria. (The U.S. Safety and Inspection Service via AP)
12 hours ago

Ground beef sold at Whole Foods may be tainted with E. coli, USDA says

Read full article: Ground beef sold at Whole Foods may be tainted with E. coli, USDA says

U.S. agriculture officials are warning that packages of ground beef sold at Whole Foods markets may be contaminated with E.

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18 hours ago

Consumer Reports releases its top-tested insect repellents of 2025

Read full article: Consumer Reports releases its top-tested insect repellents of 2025

To find the best bug sprays, Consumer Reports put repellents to the ultimate test–having real people stick their arms into cages full of hungry mosquitoes.

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18 hours ago

Fighting fatigue: Simple changes to promote better sleep

Read full article: Fighting fatigue: Simple changes to promote better sleep

Adults need a good seven to nine hours of sleep at night. But the National Sleep Foundation says one-third of people don’t get that and feel sleepy at least half the week.

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18 hours ago

How to manage the peer pressure to drink alcohol

Read full article: How to manage the peer pressure to drink alcohol

Whether it’s drinking less or not at all, many people are becoming sober curious. But it can be hard to deal with the peer pressure to drink alcohol, especially as the weather starts to warm up.

A family shopping at a shopping mall in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
2 hours ago

Vietnam scraps 2-child policy as aging threatens economic growth

Read full article: Vietnam scraps 2-child policy as aging threatens economic growth

Vietnam has scrapped its long-standing two-child policy as birth rates fall and its population ages.

Employee Savannah Gavlik displays THC products at the Dope Daughters dispensary that Texas lawmakers are seeking to ban, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
1 day ago

Texas considers banning products infused with THC derived from hemp, and retailers are worried

Read full article: Texas considers banning products infused with THC derived from hemp, and retailers are worried

Texas lawmakers have approved banning gummies, drinks and vapes infused with THC, the compound that gives marijuana its psychoactive properties.

FILE - In this June 29, 2020 file photo, Anti-abortion protesters wait outside the Supreme Court for a decision, in Washington on the Louisiana case, Russo v. June Medical Services LLC. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)
1 day ago

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions for some rape cases to abortion ban

Read full article: Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions for some rape cases to abortion ban

Louisiana lawmakers have for the third consecutive year rejected a bill that would have added some rape cases to the narrow list of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban.

President Donald Trump speaks at U.S. Steel Corporation's Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
1 day ago

Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions

Read full article: Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions

The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.

FILE - The federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
1 day ago

Federal prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates, a judge says

Read full article: Federal prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates, a judge says

A judge says the federal Bureau of Prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that led to a disruption in medical treatment.

FILE - Yury Navas, 29, of Laurel, Md., kisses her two-month-old baby Jose Ismael Glvez, at Superbest International Market in Laurel, Md., May 23, 2022, while looking for formula. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)
1 day ago

Kennedy has ordered a review of baby formula. Here's what you should know

Read full article: Kennedy has ordered a review of baby formula. Here's what you should know

Health Secretary Robert F.

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

Important advice from medical experts on how to treat sunburns

Read full article: Important advice from medical experts on how to treat sunburns

We all know the painful consequences of overdoing it and ending up with sunburn. When it comes to sunburn, Dr. Jennifer Lucas, a dermatologist with Cleveland Clinic, said you want to avoid irritating it even more.

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1 day ago

Shattered but strong: How to support children through trauma

Read full article: Shattered but strong: How to support children through trauma

Trauma can leave deep scars on children, impacting them in ways that aren’t always visible. But how children react to trauma varies from child to child.

FILE - Health department staff members enter the Andrews County Health Department measles clinic carrying doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice, File)
2 days ago

All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says

Read full article: All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says

U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying Americans should be vaccinated against the disease no matter where they travel in the world.

This photo provided by Teal Health in May 2025 shows the companys Teal Wand self-collection kit for at-home cervical cancer screening. (Nicole Morrison/Teal Health via AP)
2 days ago

More at-home health tests are now available. How to know what's right for you

Read full article: More at-home health tests are now available. How to know what's right for you

Self-administered at-home tests are available for everything from thyroid function to HIV to cervical cancer.

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Why you should know how to do CPR

Read full article: Why you should know how to do CPR

June is CPR and AED Awareness Month. If you don’t know how to do CPR, now is a good time to learn. You never know when an emergency could happen.

Eileen Lamb, from left, who was diagnosed with autism as an adult, watches over her children, Charlie Lamb and Jude, right, who also have autism, and daughter Billie, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
2 days ago

RFK Jr. says autism 'destroys' families. Here's what those families want you to know

Read full article: RFK Jr. says autism 'destroys' families. Here's what those families want you to know

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

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2 days ago

Consumer Reports: Here’s how to keep your family healthy with food safety regulation rollback

Read full article: Consumer Reports: Here’s how to keep your family healthy with food safety regulation rollback

Consumer Reports says there are ways you can lower your risk of salmonella right now.

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2 days ago

Heat Hazards: How to protect your children from the playground to the classroom

Read full article: Heat Hazards: How to protect your children from the playground to the classroom

From spring to fall, as temperatures rise earlier and remain high into the year, the dangers of extreme heat are becoming more than just uncomfortable — especially for children.

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a neighbourhood, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
2 days ago

Pakistan's anti-polio drive suffers a blow after a northern enclave reports first case in 7 years

Read full article: Pakistan's anti-polio drive suffers a blow after a northern enclave reports first case in 7 years

Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio have suffered another blow after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven years.

FILE - Pedestrians pass a vape shop in London, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
3 days ago

UK bans single-use vapes to stem use by children and reduce harmful litter

Read full article: UK bans single-use vapes to stem use by children and reduce harmful litter

A ban on disposable vapes has come into force across the U.K. as the British government aims to stem their illegal use by children, reduce litter and prevent the leaking of harmful chemicals into the environment.

Terri Swain-Collins uses a treadmill in the care of physiotherapist Alison MacDonald on May 20, 2025, at Kingston Injury Management, a clinic in Kingston, Ontario, in Canada. (Lisa Callahan via AP)
3 days ago

Exercise boosts survival rates in colon cancer patients, study shows

Read full article: Exercise boosts survival rates in colon cancer patients, study shows

A first-of-its-kind experiment shows a three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients.

FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed on Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FDA approves Moderna's new lower-dose COVID-19 vaccine

Read full article: FDA approves Moderna's new lower-dose COVID-19 vaccine

The Food and Drug administration has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna but with limits on who can use it.

A mobile health unit is parked outside of Independence High School in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)

Takeaways from AP’s report on how federal public health cuts are affecting communities across the US

Read full article: Takeaways from AP’s report on how federal public health cuts are affecting communities across the US

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

A dentist cleans the teeth of a child in the public health departments mobile dental clinic visiting Starmount Elementary school in Charlotte, N.C., on March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come

Read full article: Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows cucumbers recalled for salmonella. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration via AP)

Dozens sickened in expanding salmonella outbreak linked to recalled cucumbers

Read full article: Dozens sickened in expanding salmonella outbreak linked to recalled cucumbers

Federal health officials say at least 45 people in 18 states have been sickened in an expanding salmonella outbreak tied to recalled cucumbers.

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Do children need a summer sleep schedule?

Read full article: Do children need a summer sleep schedule?

With summer break just around the corner, some parents may let their kids stay up later than usual. However, that might not be such a good idea.

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)

CDC removes language that says healthy kids and pregnant women should get COVID shots

Read full article: CDC removes language that says healthy kids and pregnant women should get COVID shots

The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations.

FILE - The exterior view of a CVS branch is shown on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez,File)

CVS and Express Scripts sue Arkansas over restriction on pharmacy benefit managers

Read full article: CVS and Express Scripts sue Arkansas over restriction on pharmacy benefit managers

CVS and Express Scripts are asking a federal judge to block an Arkansas law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from owning or operating pharmacies in the state.

FILE - A miner gathers his thought before taking part in a rescue mission, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006, in Tallmansville, W.Va.. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, Pool, File)

Trump administration reverses planned closures of 3 dozen US mine safety offices

Read full article: Trump administration reverses planned closures of 3 dozen US mine safety offices

The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as Education Secretary Linda McMahon listens during a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' report

Read full article: White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' report

The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

As forecasts warn of an active 2025 hurricane season, one emergency manager’s no-fear approach is helping a Level I trauma center get ready for the worst

UF Health Jacksonville prepares for hurricane season with ‘Disaster Jen’ leading the charge

Read full article: UF Health Jacksonville prepares for hurricane season with ‘Disaster Jen’ leading the charge

With hurricane season looming, UF Health Jacksonville is storm-ready—thanks to “Disaster Jen,” the fearless emergency manager leading critical drills and disaster response planning.

FILE - Vegetables are displayed for sale at a grocery store in River Ridge, La., Wednesday, July 11, 2018. On Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, U.S. agriculture officials proposed changes to the federal program that helps pay the grocery bills for pregnant women, babies and young children that includes keeping a bump in payments for fresh fruits and vegetables allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Ever heard of chrononutrition? Here’s the science behind how your meal timing can affect your health

Read full article: Ever heard of chrononutrition? Here’s the science behind how your meal timing can affect your health

Americans have long heard about the health benefits of adhering to diets rich in fresh produce and whole grains and low in red meat and processed sugars. But they may not be aware of how meal timing can affect their health.

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Important ways to strengthen your body as you get older

Read full article: Important ways to strengthen your body as you get older

Nearly a quarter of the U.S population is expected to be 65 or older by the year 2060, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Are you obsessed with reality TV? Here’s the psychology that explains why

Read full article: Are you obsessed with reality TV? Here’s the psychology that explains why

Whether it’s people trying to find love or become the next big star, there always seems to be a hot new reality show that has everyone talking. But why do they keep us coming back for more?

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Are weak ties better than no ties?

Read full article: Are weak ties better than no ties?

A former surgeon general of the U.S. once wrote “Loneliness and weak social connections are associated with a reduction in lifespan similar to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day.”

Australian actor Magda Szubanski speaks at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Dec. 7, 2017, after parliament voted to allow same-sex marriage across the nation. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk, File)

Australian comic actor Magda Szubanski, star of 'Babe' and 'Kath and Kim,' reveals cancer diagnosis

Read full article: Australian comic actor Magda Szubanski, star of 'Babe' and 'Kath and Kim,' reveals cancer diagnosis

Australian comedian and actor Magda Szubanski has announced that she has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer.

Family and friends recite the New Mexico state flag pledge ahead of a kindergartens' graduation ceremony at the elementary school in Loving, N.M., on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Oil and gas have boomed in New Mexico. Its schools are contending with pollution’s effects

Read full article: Oil and gas have boomed in New Mexico. Its schools are contending with pollution’s effects

Natural gas has become a go-to fuel for power plants from coast to coast, sometimes replacing dirtier coal-fired plants and, by extension, improving air quality.

FILE - People gather in support of transgender youth during a rally at the Utah State Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Utah lawmakers said gender-affirming care is harmful to kids. Their own study contradicts that claim

Read full article: Utah lawmakers said gender-affirming care is harmful to kids. Their own study contradicts that claim

Utah Republicans passed a ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth in 2023 and argued it was needed to protect vulnerable kids from treatments that could cause long-term harm.

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