1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1345+ words) Donald Yuen Sze arrived in the United States as the son of Chinese immigrants, became a dentist in Newark and an oral surgeon in Jersey City, and ultimately reached a rank few Americans — and even fewer dentists — ever attain. Sze…...

15+ hour, 7+ min ago   (639+ words) The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson became a flashpoint for a debate that extends far beyond the circumstances of his death: the longstanding frustration of patients and families who say they have struggled to obtain medical care after insurance…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (571+ words) In a sleep management breakthrough, a University of Texas at Austin-led team of researchers has developed a noninvasive patch that boosts REM sleep in real-world trials without surgery or medication. REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep is a unique stage of…...

1+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (922+ words) The return of measles, the resurgence of whooping cough, and the explosive, potentially deadly diarrhea from a massive cyclosporiasis outbreak are not acts of God—they are the direct and predictable results of the Trump administration’s willful dismantling of American…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (204+ words) Six in ten American adults now look five years down the road and see a life worse than the one they have today. That is a verdict revealing that hope has become a partisan commodity, traded on the whims of…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (335+ words) Well, it appears science has finally confirmed what your grandmother’s stern glare always suggested: eating your neighbors is a poor long-term strategy for community health. A pair of academics from Poland and the Czech Republic, Michal Misiak and Petr Turecek,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (663+ words) By Brian Bossak, College of Charleston Millions of Americans are under heat advisories ahead of the July Fourth holiday as a major heat wave spreads across large parts of the central and eastern United States. For many people, this is…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (738+ words) The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated 53 of 67 grants under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, eliminating roughly $68 million in funding for programs that served young people in more than two dozen states. The cancellations, which took effect immediately…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (712+ words) The fine print in your health insurance policy might as well be a gag line, except nobody’s laughing. And the punchline lands square on the backs of paying customers who discover too late that their coverage is a mirage. Two…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (656+ words) The World Health Organization’s decision to declare the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern is more than a bureaucratic designation. It is an alarm bell ringing across a world that…...