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Measles outbreak means my immunocompromised son can't leave the house without extreme safety measures
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (299+ words) Those precautions are now particularly urgent. North Carolina is one of the 32 states currently facing a measles outbreak. The disease is primarily spreading through school-age children and popping up in some of the most common communal gathering places for families....
Politicians are using low teen birth rates to further restrict access to birth control, abortion
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (128+ words) By Riley J. Steiner As a public health behavioral scientist who has spent my career researching adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health care, I felt a startling sense of whiplash upon hearing these panicked reactions. When I was at the…...
Even for trans adults, care is hard to find: "I could not do it on my own
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (1372+ words) SAVANNAH, Ga. " For Nikolas Indigo, the road to freedom was lined with warnings against a life of sin. Neither the road nor the message was a metaphor. Along nearly 250 miles of highway from Savannah to Atlanta, billboards preached: "turn from…...
PBMs warn Trump's proposal to disclose drug prices is illegal
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (103+ words) Bob Herman is the author of Health Care Inc. , an award-winning weekly newsletter about the business of health and medicine. The Trump administration's desire to pry open the black box of prescription drug prices is facing stiff opposition from the…...
Don't believe headlines saying that vaccine skepticism is widespread
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (776+ words) Higgins is a practicing pediatrician and public health physician. Two years ago, I wrote in the'New England Journal of Medicine'that one of the greatest threats to childhood vaccination is the normalization of skepticism, even though it isn't actually the norm....
I'm a neuroscientist who works on memory manipulation. My work helps me recover from addiction
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (708+ words) When philosophers imagined the ship'of Theseus, they asked: Can a vessel that has all its planks replaced one by one over time as it sails uncharted waters still be considered the same ship? Neuroscience offers a fascinating answer to this…...
RFK Jr. begins his testimony marathon
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (164+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...
The trauma of illness can last long after the body has healed
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (337+ words) Even through Zoom, I could tell she was unraveling. Her face was drawn, her shoulders hunched, her eyes darting just off-camera like she was bracing for bad news. She told me the incisions from her colon resection were healing well....
Could an HIV miracle drug actually reach people like my parents?
5+ mon, 2+ day ago (265+ words) After a childhood shaped more by silence than answers, I was given the chance to study in the United States through a scholarship. There, I carved a path in HIV research. I studied while interning and later working with U. S. -based…...
How saturated fats lost, and won, on new food pyramid
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (977+ words) By Sarah Todd, Elizabeth Cooney, and Isabella Cueto For months, nutrition experts have been anxiously waiting to see whether the new U. S. dietary guidelines would follow through on health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. s pledge to end the war on saturated…...