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What if adhering to a diet for a combined 15 days a year could wind back your internal clock nearly three years? The fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) claims to do just that.

A 5-day, fast-like diet could lower your biological age and help you live longer, shows new study. Here’s what to know

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March 1, 2024
Using hearing aids can be frustrating for older adults. Specialists say these 5 tips can help

Using hearing aids can be frustrating for older adults. Specialists say these 5 tips can help

By Judith Graham and KFF Health News
February 29, 2024
Without Medicare Part B’s shield, patient’s family owes $81,000 for a single air-ambulance flight

Without Medicare Part B’s shield, patient’s family owes $81,000 for a single air-ambulance flight

By Tony Leys and KFF Health News
February 27, 2024
Photo of a young woman sitting by herself looking sad

Doctor warns about the danger of overlooking eating disorders for people of color: ‘They’re not even being screened’

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February 26, 2024
Photo of Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer reveals Cushing’s syndrome diagnosis after being criticized for her appearance: ‘Thank you so much for everyone’s input about my face’

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February 26, 2024
Wendy Williams

Wendy Williams emerges to thank fans for support ahead of Lifetime documentary on dementia diagnosis

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February 24, 2024
One secret to preventing dementia, diabetes, and heart disease may lie in your oral health habits. Here’s the dental routine to follow

One secret to preventing dementia, diabetes, and heart disease may lie in your oral health habits. Here’s the dental routine to follow

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February 24, 2024
Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it’s fine to send unvaccinated kids to school

Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it’s fine to send unvaccinated kids to school

By Amy Maxmen and KFF Health News
February 23, 2024
Silent brain changes precede Alzheimer’s. Researchers have new clues about which come first

Silent brain changes precede Alzheimer’s. Researchers have new clues about which come first

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press
February 22, 2024
Birmingham, Alabama

Alabama’s largest hospital forced to pause IVF treatments for aspiring parents after court ruling on legal status of embryos

By Kim Chandler and The Associated Press
February 22, 2024
vaccines

Largest ever global study of COVID vaccines finds small but real link to neurological, blood, heart-related conditions

By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
February 19, 2024
Exclusive: Bryan Johnson, the tech founder spending millions to be 18 again, says his goal is to make death optional

Exclusive: Bryan Johnson, the tech founder spending millions to be 18 again, says his goal is to make death optional

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February 17, 2024
You’re probably familiar with the myriad benefits of the Mediterranean diet: reduced inflammation, healthy brain aging, and more. But the similar Atlantic diet offers its own advantages, according to a new study conducted in Spain.

Meet the Atlantic diet: The Mediterranean diet’s neighbor—with an added benefit

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February 16, 2024
Biohacker Bryan Johnson

Exclusive: Biohacking millionaire Bryan Johnson welcomes the ‘haters’ like Elon Musk: ‘They’re engaging with me, they’re offering me their perspectives, and I love it’

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February 14, 2024
GoFundMe has become a health care utility

GoFundMe has become a health care utility

By Elisabeth Rosenthal and KFF Health News
February 13, 2024
An Oregon resident was diagnosed with the plague after likely catching the disease from a sick pet. What to know about the illness

An Oregon resident was diagnosed with the plague after likely catching the disease from a sick pet. What to know about the illness

By Rebecca Boone and The Associated Press
February 13, 2024
Prostate cancer shouldn’t be a death sentence. But for a startling number of U.S. males, it is

Prostate cancer shouldn’t be a death sentence. But for a startling number of U.S. males, it is

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February 10, 2024
It’s not your imagination, watching the Super Bowl is extremely stressful. 4 tips to combat game-day anxiety

It’s not your imagination, watching the Super Bowl is extremely stressful. 4 tips to combat game-day anxiety

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February 9, 2024
Minnesotans can buy insulin for just $35 a month over the next 5 years under a state settlement with Eli Lilly

Minnesotans can buy insulin for just $35 a month over the next 5 years under a state settlement with Eli Lilly

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
February 8, 2024
Some advocates and school systems — and the state of California — are now encouraging kids to come to class even when they have the sniffles or other nuisance illnesses like lice or pinkeye.

Cough? Sore throat? More schools suggest mildly sick kids attend anyway: ‘It’s extremely confusing’

By Bianca Vázquez Toness and The Associated Press
February 7, 2024
Informational brochures on Medicaid expansion during an event held by New Hanover County Department of Health and Human Services at a library in Wilmington, N.C., on Dec.16, 2023. North Carolina's expansion of Medicaid began on December 1st, and its estimated that more than 600,000 people statewide are now eligible for healthcare coverage that they otherwise could not afford.

Halfway through ‘unwinding,’ Medicaid enrollment is down about 10 million

By Phil Galewitz and KFF Health News
February 7, 2024
COVID antiviral Paxlovid could have saved more than 16,000 lives, had it been properly prescribed, new Harvard study finds

COVID antiviral Paxlovid could have saved more than 16,000 lives, had it been properly prescribed, new Harvard study finds

By Kenya Hunter and The Associated Press
February 7, 2024
Phthalates can be found in “a broad swath” of consumer products, from personal care to food packaging. The exposure of pregnant women to such chemicals may be linked to preterm birth, Dr. Leonardo Trasande, a professor of pediatrics and population health at NYL Langone Health, tells Fortune.

Plastic-linked ‘hormone-disrupting chemicals’ were potentially behind 10% of U.S. preterm births in 2018, according to new research. How families can steer clear of their danger

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February 6, 2024
Jill Feldman, 54, poses for a photo at her home in Deerfield, Ill., on Jan. 19. Lung cancer patient and advocate Jill Feldman takes pills at home that shrink tumors by blocking a signal that tells cancer cells to grow.

As cancer treatment advances, advocates push back against ‘maximum tolerated dose,’ citing patient suffering

By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
February 6, 2024
In this July 2014 file photo, Esaw Garner, center, wife of Eric Garner, breaks down in the arms of Rev. Herbert Daughtry and Rev. Al Sharpton, right, during a rally at the National Action Network headquarters for Eric Garner on July 19, 2014, in New York. Garner, 43, died during an arrest in Staten Island, when a plain-clothes police officer placed him in what appeared to be a chokehold while several others brought him to the ground and struggled to place him in handcuffs. A new study sheds light on the health impacts of racism on African Americans, including poorer sleep after police shooting of unarmed Black people.

Sleep loss more common among African Americans after police-involved killings of unarmed Black people like Eric Garner, new study finds

By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
February 5, 2024
Patients given a monthly injection of Amgen’s drug, dubbed MariTide, lost up to 14.5% of their body weight in just 12 weeks, according to a small, early-stage study published Monday in the journal Nature Metabolism.

Experimental once-a-month weight loss injectable shows lasting results in early study

By Madison Muller and Bloomberg
February 5, 2024
A general view of the Center for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., on Aug. 6, 2022. The CDC is opening its first regional office in a developed nation, with the post in Japan set to enhance its work with allies on disease monitoring amid rising geopolitical tensions with China.

CDC opens office in Tokyo amid rising geopolitical tensions with China

By Kanoko Matsuyama and Bloomberg
February 5, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden takes a selfie photograph with an attendee at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, Mass., on Sept. 12, 2022. Biden's remarks on his administration's cancer moonshot, taking place on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's "Moonshot" speech, are aimed at the goal of ending cancer.

Public health advocates urge action on menthol, applaud accomplishments like patient navigation as Biden administration celebrates 2-year anniversary of ‘cancer moonshot’

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February 4, 2024
Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer

Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer

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February 4, 2024
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, speaks to the media during a press conference with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Dr. Mike Ryan, the executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Program, at the Government Buildings in Dublin on Dec. 18, 2023. Ghebreyesus spoke on the topic of the pandemic treaty Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit in Coventry, England, attending virtually from Geneva. He called the treaty, currently in dispute my member nations, "mission critical for humanity."

WHO chief warns ‘future generations may not forgive us’ if pandemic treaty not agreed upon: ‘There will be a next time’

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February 3, 2024

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