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From overly tight underwear to conceiving after 35 – experts bust fertility myths
We sort the scientific facts from the misconceptionsIt can take around three menstrual cycles for someone’s expected fertility to return once they stop taking the pill, but there’s no long-te
Read MoreOpinion: A physician and author’s 1984 tribute to the NIH feels all the more valuable today
“The National Institutes of Health is not only the largest institution for biomedical science on earth, it is one of this nation's great treasures,” physician-humanist Lewis Thomas wrote in 1984.
Read MoreMusk’s takeover of US health agencies raises pandemic threat, experts warn
Doge wreaks havoc on HHS and CDC as Trump seeks to grant committee sweeping governmental powersThe “department of government efficiency”, the Donald Trump-created program known as Doge and headed
Read More‘I didn’t want to spend time with my children. I was just going through the motions’: the pain of parental burnout
Most people with small children are worn out – but for some, the pressure of striving to be perfect parents can drive them to the edge‘I cried like someone had died,” Rachel Stern says of the da
Read MoreNew Insights Into Older Hearts
Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.
Read MoreNew Insights Into Older Hearts
Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.
Read MoreJournalists Talk Southern Health Care: HIV Drug Access, Medicaid Expansion, Vaccination Rates
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Read MoreWallowing in a soup of despair? Try ‘lemonading’ to buck the gloom
Linda Geddes spends a week with a clown, a comic and some toddlers to test the science behind the uplifting power of playIf foreign politics, environmental collapse and the impending takeover of the w
Read MoreSGLT1/2 Inhibitor Cut Stroke, Heart Attack Risk in Diabetic Kidney Disease
(MedPage Today) -- The dual SGLT1/2 inhibitor sotagliflozin (Inpefa) reduced the risk for myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), chronic kidney diseas
Read MoreTexas measles outbreak rises to 48 cases. It’s the state’s worst in nearly 30 years
The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state's worst in nearly 30 years.
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