1+ week, 6+ day ago  (381+ words) Good morning. Reporters get countless email pitches every day. Just yesterday, I got one that mentioned Hannah Montana in the subject line. But the pitch that kicked off Elaine Chen's latest story is not what we typically see. The subject…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (909+ words) Koch is a parent and writer based in Oregon. My 13-year-old is finally asleep. His thin body is curled beneath a blanket identical to mine. One shoulder peeks out, bruised from repeated injections of calming medication. A neon orange bandage…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (482+ words) Good morning. A new Gallup poll found that health care is back on top of the list of Americans" domestic worries. Does staying informed on the news help combat that concern? Read on and let me know." The CDC has…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago  (415+ words) Lead may be out of gasoline and paint but it's not out of our hearts." "This study reframes coronary heart disease," Bruce Lanphear, a professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University and author of a companion editorial, told STAT…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (642+ words) By Mehmet Oz and Abe Sutton Our public health programs are failing the children who need them most. Together, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) cover half of all children who have complex medical and behavioral needs or…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (434+ words) When you're vulnerable in a hospital bed " confused, frightened, surrounded by machines " it might seem obvious you're not in charge. A doctor speaks, a patient listens. But Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in the 1830s about a new country, not about its…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (963+ words) Every parent dreams of a healthy future for their child. For me, that dream vanished when, at 4 weeks old, my son Wheeler was diagnosed with CLN3 juvenile batten disease, a rare genetic disease that will steal his vision, memory, mobility, and…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (507+ words) Good morning. Don't miss Sarah Todd's conversation with the government's official new A. I. nutrition tool. (It's Grok.) Read all the way to the end for how many sticks of butter you should eat every day." The FDA refused to review Moderna's…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (589+ words) Hendrix is freelance writer and mother based in Oslo, Norway. RSV is a respiratory illness that's most dangerous for babies under the age of 12 months. In the U. S. , it's the leading cause of infant hospitalizations. But during the flu season of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (279+ words) At least nine hospitals or health systems have stopped providing gender-affirming hormones and puberty blockers to young trans people since the start of the year, in the wake of federal rules proposed in December that would withhold Medicare and Medicaid…...