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Telehealth is widely used by older adults insured by Medicare, new research shows
Americans age 65 and older who are insured by Medicare logged about 60 million telehealth visits annually between 2021 ... Read More
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Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty cause real harms, even if the money is later restored
Since early 2025, several large federal health grants to states have been suspended and then restored after legal challenges. On Feb. 13, 2026, for example, the federal government moved to suspend about US$600 million ...Read more
How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability
A Los Angeles courtroom is hosting what may become the most consequential legal challenge Big Tech has ever faced.
This is an inflection point in the global debate over Big Tech liability: For the first time, an...Read more
How a successful Colorado startup turned into a nearly $1 billion health care fraud scheme
Marian Houk was rehabbing from a major spinal surgery in 2022 when her physical therapist at UCHealth in Aurora, Colorado, recommended she try electrical stimulation to manage the pain.
Like many providers around the ...Read more
The neuro disease rat lungworm has reached California
LOS ANGELES — A disease that can cause neurological illness and meningitis in people, rat lungworm, has been found in wild opposums, rats and a zoo animal in San Diego County, indicating its establishment in California ...Read more
Nutrition News: Attention "Nutrition News" Editors: The Following Column Was Previously Released In 2023. Thank You. -- Creators
ATTENTION "NUTRITION NEWS" EDITORS: THE FOLLOWING COLUMN WAS PREVIOUSLY RELEASED IN 2023. THANK YOU. -- CREATORS
Psoriasis and Your Diet
Can what you eat help calm psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory disease that affects ...Read more
Mayo Clinic expert highlights improved survival in muscle-invasive bladder cancer and kidney cancer
Cancers of the reproductive and urinary organs, known as genitourinary cancers, affect millions of people worldwide each year. At Mayo Clinic, Yousef Zakharia, M.D., a medical oncologist and chair of the Genitourinary ...Read more
On Nutrition: Best fish catches
Reader Dianne K. writes: “Hello Barbara, I enjoy reading your column in the Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star. Now that Lent is here, I'm thinking about my choices of fish. Wild caught or farm-raised? I have read that ...Read more
Mom Is On The Hook For Estranged Son's College Loan
DEAR ABBY: My son took out a couple of education loans, which I cosigned when he was starting college 10 years ago. A couple of years ago, I found out (from someone else) that he never finished college. When I confronted ...Read more
Defining The Characteristics Of The Four Stages Of Cancer
DEAR DR. ROACH: Can you define the characteristics of the four stages of cancer? I understand that stage I is generally when cancer is caught early and can be treated with a good success rate, while stage IV is usually ...Read more
Caffeine and cognition
We're a country of coffee drinkers -- 66% of us have at least a cup daily. We're also tea lovers, but it has a much lower level of caffeine than coffee. An average cup of black tea serves up about 50 milligrams of caffeine...Read more
Isn’t the Bible a book of condemnation?
From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham
Q: People are always talking about going to Bible studies, but they don’t seem to learn anything. They just claim that God loves everybody. Isn’t the Bible a book of ...Read more
Nearly a third of Pennsylvania gamblers are at risk of problem gambling − but few seek treatment
Nearly three times as many Pennsylvania adults gamble online today than just a few years ago.
And as online platforms make gambling easier and more convenient, some Pennsylvanians are gambling more often and may...Read more
Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID
In Greek mythology, King Sisyphus was condemned by the god Zeus to spend eternity rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down, having to start anew every day.
His story captured our attention as ...Read more
Measles exposure locations in Colorado: 2 schools, 3 restaurants and a grocery store
Colorado has its first measles outbreak of 2026, with three cases linked to students at Broomfield schools.
Measles symptoms can take up to three weeks to appear and initially are nonspecific: a fever, cough, runny nose ...Read more
LA County banned sales of kratom. Now some residents say they're losing a lifeline for pain and opioid withdrawal
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County banned sales of kratom and 7-OH in November following overdose deaths, but experts question whether the drugs alone caused the fatalities.
Residents who relied on kratom for chronic pain...Read more
Families defend disability services amid Medicaid cuts
Families of Idahoans with disabilities say their lives could be upended as lawmakers in the state’s Republican-dominated legislature mull sweeping cuts.
Services at risk include the 24/7 care that allows a 39-year-old ...Read more
States try 'public option' Obamacare plans to reduce coverage costs
Nearly two decades ago, progressives fought to include a so-called public option — a government-run health plan — in the broad health care overhaul known as Obamacare. That effort failed, defeated by heavy lobbying ...Read more
Commentary: What HBO's 'The Pitt' gets wrong about AI -- and what medicine misses
Generative artificial intelligence has already reshaped industries such as computer programming, retail, and manufacturing. In medicine, however, fears of clinical error have slowed adoption.
At present, two-thirds of ...Read more
Would you eat fruits and vegetables with a doctor's prescription?
BALTIMORE -- A prescription fruit-and-vegetable program seeks to stave off illnesses caused by poor nutrition and diet in Maryland’s food-insecure communities. Backed by a $480,000 grant from the National Institute for ...Read more
GOP says Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear supports surgery for trans kids. What does his record show?
LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear ran for reelection in 2023, a reoccurring Republican line of attack was that he’d allow minors to undergo gender-affirming surgeries.
Now, as the governor builds his ...Read more
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- Mayo Clinic expert highlights improved survival in muscle-invasive bladder cancer and kidney cancer
- Measles exposure locations in Colorado: 2 schools, 3 restaurants and a grocery store
- States try 'public option' Obamacare plans to reduce coverage costs
- LA County banned sales of kratom. Now some residents say they're losing a lifeline for pain and opioid withdrawal
- Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty cause real harms, even if the money is later restored
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