Month: August 2025

KFF HEALTH NEWS – Now that the Republicans’ big tax-and-spending bill has become law, new bureaucratic hurdles have emerged for millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid for health coverage. A provision…

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – One of the six people who fell ill in a French botulism outbreak linked to cake has died. French media reported the 78-year-old woman who died had made…

Stanford University VIA MEDICAL XPRESS – A new Stanford-led study sheds light on “an emerging psychological health crisis” that disproportionately affects girls. Published July 30 in The Lancet Planetary Health, the study…

New Scientist – The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a vagus nerve stimulator for rheumatoid arthritis – the first such device to be cleared for an autoimmune condition, potentially paving the…

WEBMD – We’ve all had leg pain at some point. Maybe you banged your shin against your favorite chair, or you had an intense cramp in your thigh or calf muscle. It…

NBC NEWS – Doctors at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new cause of skin cancer, according to a case report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine….

KFF HEALTH NEWS – A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels…

THE NEW YORK TIMES – President Trump on Thursday sent letters to 17 of the world’s biggest drugmakers demanding that they reduce some of their U.S. prices to the much lower levels…

CNN – When Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac, they helped propel the band to a commercial and creative pinnacle. For the couple, though, joining the band was the beginning…