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Can Exercising Help You Live Longer? Twin Study Says It May Be Complicated
Written by Corrie Pelc — Fact checked by Amanda Ward For as long as there has been science, researchers have continued to look for ways to help us live longer. “The length of the life span reflects...
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A Brief History Of Medicaid And America’s Long Struggle To Establish A Health...
Ben Zdencanovic, University of California, Los Angeles The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash federal spending. A joint federal and state...
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RFK Jr. Tells His Favorite Anti-Vaccine Group to Delete Mock CDC Website
By Thomas Maxwell Anti-vaccine advocate and health secretary for the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ordered the nonprofit he once chaired to delete a webpage that mimicked the design of the...
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Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
By Apoorva Mandavilli, Margot Sanger-Katz and Jan Hoffman The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for...
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Can You Use Home Equity To Pay For Long-Term Care?
Written by Linda Bell – Edited by Troy Segal – 9 Minute read Aging is inevitable. It’s also very expensive. At some point in our lives, seven out of ten of us will need long-term care. And costs for it...
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10,000 Federal Health Dept. Workers to Be Laid Off
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg The Trump administration on Thursday announced a massive layoff of 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department, as part of a dramatic reorganization designed to...
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Over 100 Tons Of Egg Beaters Products Recalled
Cargill Kitchen Solutions of Lake Odessa, MI, is recalling 212,268 pounds of liquid egg products that may contain a cleaning solution with sodium hypochlorite, according to the the USDA’s Food Safety...
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Why TED Requires Treatment by a Specialist: Understanding the Importance of...
Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) can affect a person’s well-being and quality of daily life. The condition is commonly linked to Graves disease and can lead to eye-related issues such as irritation and...
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Could A Low-Calorie Keto Diet Help Reverse Biological Aging?
Written by Erika Watts — Fact checked by Jill Seladi-Schulman, Ph.D. Obesity affects more than 40% of adults in the United States, and one of the health concerns related to obesity is how it affects...
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Thousands Of Workers At Nation’s Health Agencies Brace For Mass Layoffs
BY AMANDA SEITZ AND MATTHEW PERRONE WASHINGTON (AP) — As they readied to leave work Monday, some workers at the Food and Drug Administration were told to pack their laptops and prepare for the...
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Multiple Leaders Purged At NIH, CDC And FDA As Massive Layoffs Begin At U.S....
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Rachel Roubein and Joel Achenbach In emails that began arriving late Monday, senior leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services were put on administrative leave...
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No More Waiting Rooms: The Rise of Telehealth for American Women
In the quiet corners of countless homes, a subtle revolution has taken root. It does not demand protest signs or clamor through crowded streets. It unfolds in bedrooms and kitchens, between...
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More Americans Can’t Afford Medical Care, Poll Finds
By Reed Abelson It’s not just the high price of eggs or the rising cost of housing that is contributing to Americans’ unhappiness over the cost of living. Health care remains stubbornly unaffordable...
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Senate Confirms Mehmet Oz To Take Lead Of Medicare And Medicaid Agency
BY AMANDA SEITZ WASHINGTON (AP) — Former heart surgeon and TV pitchman Dr. Mehmet Oz was confirmed Thursday to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Oz became the agency’s...
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Trump’s Next Tariffs Target Could Be Foreign-Made Medicines
By Rebecca Robbins The drug industry got a temporary reprieve on Wednesday when foreign-made medicines were exempted from President Trump’s far-reaching new tariffs. But Mr. Trump has been saying for...
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New Blood Test May Help Diagnose, Show How Far Alzheimer’s Has Progressed
Written by Corrie Pelc — Fact checked by Jill Seladi-Schulman, Ph.D. However, people are not always diagnosed at the beginning of the disease — they can be diagnosed at different stages, which can...
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Atrial Fibrillation Increases Dementia Risk, New Research Warns
Written by Jessica Freeborn — Fact checked by Jill Seladi-Schulman, Ph.D. Atrial fibrillation (AFib) affects millions of people and is a common arrhythmia. Experts are continuing to explore the...
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Is Brain Inflammation At The Core Of Cognitive Decline? What Latest Research...
Written by Maria Cohut, Ph.D.— Fact checked by Jill Seladi-Schulman, Ph.D. While the causes behind cognitive decline and, more importantly, dementia, remain uncertain, researchers have taken huge...
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Private Medicare Plans to Get Big Payment Boost From Trump Administration
By Anna Wilde Mathews The Trump administration will substantially increase payment rates for Medicare insurers next year, generating more than $25 billion in additional revenue for the industry and...
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RFK Jr. Says He Plans To Tell CDC To Stop Recommending Fluoride In Drinking...
BY HANNAH SCHOENBAUM AND MIKE STOBBE SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop...
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