Study finds quality sleep could add up to 5 years to your life Sometimes sleep deprivation can be hard to avoid, but a strategy called "sleep banking" may help you counterbalance it. Whether you're

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CNN — A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and spe

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Food and Drug Administration advisers will meet Thursday to discuss how the next round of Covid boosters should be updated to target strains that may be circulating this fall. Time is of the essence:

Body mass index has for decades been used as a shorthand for assessing body fat and weight-related health risks. But for about just as long, critics have noted the simple calculation is laden with pro

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U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas, on Wednesday hotly debated a witness about what he called the “elephant in the room” during a hearing about federal funds for pediatricians’ education.

A manager of Harvard Medical School's morgue and his wife are accused of stealing human body parts — among them heads, brains, skin and bones — from donated cadavers and selling them, according to a f

In what Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes called a "stunning failure of government," state officials say criminals masquerading as health providers defrauded Arizona taxpayers out of "hundreds of mi

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Maternal deaths in U.S. increased 40% in 2021, new CDC report shows Three-time Olympic medalist Tori Bowie, who died in early May at the age of 32, was eight months pregnant and in labor at her Flori

Río de Janeiro - Río de Janeiro - Brazil is a few steps away from manufacturing the world’s first vaccine against schistosomiasis, a disease caused by worms that causes large swollen bellies in chil

U.S. employees are increasingly struggling with mental health challenges tied to their jobs, such as depression, anxiety and burnout. We’re professors who research how employees interact and workplac

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The risk of dying from breast cancer has fallen dramatically since the 1990s, according to a new study, which found that most women diagnosed with early breast cancer now go on to survive the disease

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CNN — Obesity may damage the brain’s ability to recognize the sensation of fullness and be satisfied after eating fats and sugars, a new study found. Further, those brain changes may last even after

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A panel that advises the Food and Drug Administration agreed that a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease was beneficial for slowing cognitive decline, paving the way for full regulatory approval next

Al Letson: From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. I’m Al Letson. This month marks a year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, and since then we’ve had a team of reporters,

Three landmark Supreme Court decisions in 2022 have each been widely criticized by health experts as threats to public health, but a study released Thursday in JAMA Network Open modeled their collecti

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When Aubrie Butler applied for nutrition benefits a few years ago, she was honest about her husband’s 2006 felony drug conviction, thinking, “All they can say is ‘no.’” South Carolina started to give

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The World Health Organization has been urged to update its guidelines on the use of antibiotics in developing countries after a study found that thousands of infants were dying from infections that co

A panel of independent advisors to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended Thursday that the antibody nirsevimab be approved for use to protect infants from respiratory syncytial viru

Before August 2021, Emily Clasen had never heard of Ozempic. The 31-year-old from Fort Wayne, Indiana tells Rolling Stone that after her best friend at work mentioned the drug, she brought it up with

June 7 (Reuters) - The northeastern United States is blanketed under a pungent haze caused by smoke carried down from wildfires burning in Canada that contains a host of noxious gases an

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Is there any such thing as a “salt tooth”? We are familiar with a sweet tooth, and sugar cravings, along with the negative effects of those. We are broadly aware of the downsides of too much salt, inc