Health

Thierry Monasse/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, there was a key provision that the Biden administration fought hard for. For years, private insurance companies negotiated with drug makers over prescription prices. However, Medicare, representing 50 million seniors, did not have the same right to negotiate prices for its Part […]

Roger Harris/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Cases of whooping cough are more than three times higher this year than they were at the same time last year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). So far this year, there have been 10,865 recorded cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, compared […]

Felix Zahn/Photothek via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The spread of a newer strain of mpox in Africa led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the disease a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on Wednesday. This newer strain is believed to be behind an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo […]

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Actress Halle Berry is among the new wave of women in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond speaking out about menopause to take the conversation out of the shadows and into the spotlight. In May, Berry, a 58-year-old mom of two, stood outside the U.S. Capitol and yelled, […]

USA’s Noah Lyles celebrates with his bronze medal during the medal ceremony Men’s 200m Final at the Stade de France on the fourteenth day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in France. (Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris came to an end this weekend, […]

pablohart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Pediatric water bead-related emergency room visits increased over 130% in one year, a new study published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine shows. Water beads are small balls of polymer that can expand up to 100 to 1,500 times in size when they come in contact with water, according […]

sukanya sitthikongsak/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Deaths from dementia have tripled in just 21 years, according to a new study published in The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders. In 1999, about 150,000 Americans died from dementia, according to the study. By 2020, that number had tripled to over 450,000. The chances of dying from […]

Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on Wednesday “Today, the Emergency Committee met and advised me that in its view, the situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice,” said […]

Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Current routine blood tests are not a reliable way of diagnosing long COVID, according to a new study. The researchers, who published their findings in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal on Monday, examined if a COVID-19 infection led to changes in routine blood biomarkers, such as platelet counts […]

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A growing body of research suggests that age is more than just a number. Regardless of how many birthdays you’ve celebrated, your overall health may depend on the resilience and vitality of your cells. It’s a concept known as biological, or epigenetic, aging. Biological aging explained “Chronological […]