Editor's note: This is a developing story and will be updated.A bird flu virus called H5N1 recently infected Animals that it had never been seen in before: goats and cows.Now, it's suspected that a person has picked up the infection...
Almost two-thirds of U.S. women of reproductive age use some kind of contraception, according to the latest federal data. And millions of them use methods that contain hormones, including birth control pills, intrauterine devices (IUDs),...
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.A decade and a half ago, the Affordable Care Act set the stage for Donald Trump's White House victory. The...
Rice stands as a fundamental staple in diets worldwide, serving as a primary source of energy and nutrients for billions of people. However, the decision between white rice vs. brown rice often perplexes health-conscious consumers....
“Don’t take things personally,” my professor warned my class. “Therapists have a responsibility to compartmentalize social emotions like shame and guilt. Try to ignore them,” he added. “What a patient is feeling toward...
Does the specter of a bad back loom over your day like a dark cloud, casting a shadow on everything you do? For many, a bad back isn’t just a health issue – it’s a life issue. Pain, limited mobility, and discomfort...
In a rare case, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on April 1 that a person in the U.S. has tested positive for avian iNFLuenza, also known as bird flu. Despite the positive test, however, the CDC says...
Want to put on muscle? Who wouldn’t: It keeps you strong enough to do the things you love now, and it’s a great investment for later, since muscle improves bone mineral density and mobility as you age. People with more muscle mass...
Jason Kelce may have retired from the NFL, but the former Philadelphia Eagles center isn’t letting loose of his fitness regimen. In fact, he is ready to undergo a physical transformation as he’s currently “in the process” of...
A new treatment may be able to treat a life-threatening disorder that predominantly affects children, initial findings from a pioneering clinical trial suggest.The disorder, called propionic acidemia (PA), is an inherited metabolic...
A person in Texas has tested positive for bird flu after being in contact with dairy cows that were likely infected with the virus, Health officials announced on Monday (April 1).The individual's only reported symptom was eye redness,...
Jena, Germany, 1924: Working in near-isolation and with painstaking tediousness, the psychiatrist Hans Berger observes rhythmic electrical activity from the scalp of human subjects. He is convinced the activity arises from within the...
Most of the estimated 300,000 babies born every year with sickle cell disease, an inherited red blood cell disorder, live in sub-Saharan Africa in nations where there are few resources to treat them. As an assistant professor of biomedical...
Sleeping with your dog in the same room could be negatively affecting your sleep quality, according to my team’s recently published research in Scientific Reports. We recruited a nationally representative sample of more than 1,500...
By Rae Ellen Bichell and Lindsey Toomer, KFF Health News and Colorado Newsline In February, Norma Brambila’s teenage daughter wrote her a letter she now carries in her purse. It is a drawing of a rose, and a note encouraging...
Picture a room with 100 people in it — just regular adults, people with jobs and monthly bills and credit scores. In America, if that room contains a sufficient cross section of the population, as many as 40 people will have debt...
Almost 25 million adults in the U.S. have high cholesterol, which puts them at a higher risk for a heart attack or stroke in the next decade. But a much bigger portion have what’s called borderline high cholesterol, an in-between...
As a child, you may have been told that playing outside in the dirt is good for you because it strengthens your immune system. But is there any evidence to back this claim? In short, yes — several studies suggest that early...
More than 570 cases of mpox have been detected in the U.S. so far in 2024 — nearly double the number seen by this time last year.This infection rate doesn't come close to that seen at the peak of the mpox outbreak in early August...
In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with that of the 14th-century...
NEW YORK — U.S. Health officials are warning of an increase in rare bacterial illnesses than can lead to meningitis and possible death.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert to U.S. doctors on Thursday about...
