Smartphone addiction fuels loneliness and reduces well-being, study finds
In a recent article published in Scientific Reports, researchers explored how loneliness mediates the link between excessive smartphone use or...
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If You’re Poor, Fertility Treatment Can Be Out of Reach
Mary Delgado’s first pregnancy went according to plan, but when she tried to get pregnant again seven years later, nothing...
Health insurance and your taxes
Published on February 22, 2024If you had Marketplace coverage at any point in 2023 and got the , here’s what...
Identifying antiviral protein IFN-γ as a potential biomarker for Long COVID
SARS-CoV-2 triggers the production of the antiviral protein IFN-γ, which is associated with fatigue, muscle ache and depression. New research shows that in...
Shaping the future of anticancer therapies
The ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024 is the annual multi-stakeholder meeting that focuses on the development of novel anticancer...
Exome sequencing unravels complex genetic diagnoses in growth disorders
In an article published in the Journal of Pediatrics, researchers based in Brazil describe the case of a nine-year-old boy admitted to hospital...
States Target Health Insurers’ ‘Prior Authorization’ Red Tape
Bram Sable-Smith Christopher Marks noticed an immediate improvement when his doctor prescribed him the Type 2 diabetes medication Mounjaro last...
Mussel oil beats fish oil in atherosclerosis prevention, animal study finds
In a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, researchers compared the efficacy of mussel and fish oils...
For the Love of Health Care and Health Policy
Nothing melts our hearts like a health policy valentine. Readers made us swoon this season, writing poetic lines about prescription...
Pregnant women show significant immune system changes linked to gut microbiome
In a recent study published in Clinical Microbiology, a group of researchers investigated how gut microbiota and metabolite changes relate...
Is Housing Health Care? State Medicaid Programs Increasingly Say ‘Yes’
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public...
