Category Health & Wellness

An academic journal may inject some optimism into US health policy – a scarce commodity amid the Trump administration’s mass layoffs, funding freezes and the ideological research reviews. A new issue of Health Affairs Scholar argues the conversation around healthcare…

MINNEAPOLIS — A jury found the alleged ringleader of a massive pandemic fraud case in Minnesota guilty on all counts Wednesday for her role in a scheme that federal prosecutors say stole $250 million from a program meant to feed…

A newborn baby died due to the gross failure of three midwives to provide basic medical care, a coroner has ruled. Ida Lock was born at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) on 9 November 2019 but died a week later…

Kilmer S. McCully, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s and ’70s whose colleagues banished him to the basement for insisting — correctly, it turned out — that homocysteine, an amino acid, was being overlooked as a possible…

Interestingly, within the group of test participants that increased their vitamin D3 intake (rather than eldecalcitol), those that maintained a vitamin D blood serum level of 50 ng/ml or higher (i.e., the truly optimal vitamin D level we should be…

Last Friday was World Sleep Day. Did you miss it? If so, that feels apt. Many of us feel stuck trying to catch up and sleep better. We’ve all been told not to look at a screen before bedtime because…

I’m a woman of 50, married for 30 years to the best husband. He is a very kind person, whom I love dearly. We have a very comfortable and balanced relationship where we have our hobbies, but also shared interests.…

(MedPage Today) — Tuberculosis (TB) continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More than 10,300 cases were reported last year, an 8% increase from 2023 and the highest…

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Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez While Congress considers potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, tribal health leaders are bracing for a crisis. Indian Country has a unique relationship to Medicaid, because the program helps tribes cover chronic funding shortfalls left by…