After being sidelined for 84 days, my body remembered what it could do — which is where I got into trouble.
Your Best Tips for a Better Uber or Lyft Trip
When we asked you for your best tips for better ridesharing trips, dozens of drivers and fellow passengers replied. Here are the best tips we heard.
Why Your Butt Looks the Same No Matter How Many Squats You Do
You’re going after a peach harder than Amy Schumer goes after body-shamers. You squat, and squat, and squat, and still… no glute gains. What gives? For one, you can’t really selectively train one body part. “Squats don’t just work the glutes,” says physical therapist Grayson Wickham, D.P.T., C.S.C.S., founder of Movement Vault, a mobility and movement company. “They also …
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
The Friday Breeze Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes, who reads everything on health care to compile our daily Morning Briefing, offers the best and most provocative stories for the weekend. Happy Friday! I think women huddled in blankets across the nation felt vindicated by a new study that found those gender-based battles over the thermostat that …
Weekly Health Quiz: Weight Loss, Diet and Pain Relief
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
He’s Not Ready to Move In. I’m Not Ready to Break Up.
What’s there to do when your significant other stalls on combining addresses?
Longer Looks: Abortion Restrictions; Republican Health Care Proposals; And The Public Option
Each week, KHN’s Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
Viewpoints: We Need A Humane Immigration Policy, But In The Meantime Border Agents Aren’t To Blame For Children’s Deaths
Editorial pages feature opinions on immigration, vaccinations, gun safety, heart disease, climate change and more.
Perspectives: As A Christian Republican I Believe Women In Crisis Should Be Met With Compassion; It’s Time To Reconsider Religion’s Grip On Public Policy
Opinion writers examine the complexities of abortion rights and other women’s health issues.
Women In Health Care Industry Routinely Overlooked For Promotions Due To Gender
The survey comes amid a broader push among the industry to get more women into leadership roles. More health systems are appointing chief diversity officers tasked, in part, with ensuring gender diversity. Time’s Up Healthcare also recently launched to address similar disparities and injustices. But shifting from how things have always been done in health …
House Committee Leaders Target Medicare Part D With Draft Legislation To Lower Drug Costs
“Already this Congress, our committees have held several hearings with patients and experts from across the political spectrum to discuss options to lower prescription drug prices,” the bipartisan group of House lawmakers said. “Universally these witnesses agreed that Medicare Part D can and should be improved to cap out-of-pocket spending, and lower costs both for …
White House Forges Ahead With Public Charge Rules Following Complaints DHS Was Slow-Walking Process
The Trump administration has sought to impose tougher requirements on legal immigrants using public assistance programs, a move that advocates say will have a chilling factor on vulnerable migrants — and potentially their sponsors — who would otherwise seek health care and food aid.
State Highlights: Incapacitated Rape Victim Who Gave Birth May Have Been Pregnant Before; Calif. Soda Industry Finds Success In Thwarting Bills
Media outlets report on health care news out of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Illinois, Tennessee, Florida, New Jersey and Michigan.
USC Gynecologist Still Wasn’t Fired After Experts Told School He May Be Preying On Asian Students And Showing Signs Of ‘Psychopathy’
University of Southern California administrators hired a team of medical experts after it received complaints against longtime campus gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall. Despite the subsequent damning report, he wasn’t fired. Instead, USC’s lawyers arranged a secret deal with Tyndall that allowed him to leave his post with a substantial financial payout and a pristine professional …
New York Considers Eyes New Rules For Hospitals To Prevent Rapid Spread Of Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus
Screening requirements for hospitals and nursing homes can be costly and time-consuming, but state officials say they are determined to stop Candida auris, a fungus of mysterious origin that has been quietly spreading around the world since it was first identified in 2009. In other public health news: cancer, autism, superbugs, genital cutting, black lung, …
Nation’s Eyes Swivel To Oklahoma As High-Stakes Opioid Trial Against Drugmakers Kicks Off Next Week
The hearing is the first public trial to emerge from roughly 2,000 U.S. lawsuits aimed at holding drug companies accountable for their alleged role in the nation’s raging opioid crisis. “I expect a very spirited trial,” said local attorney and author Bob Burke. In other news on the epidemic: JPMorgan cuts ties with Purdue Pharma, …
First Edition: May 24, 2019
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Use Of Buprenorphine To Treat Opioid Addiction Proliferates In California
Buprenorphine, a relative newcomer in the treatment of opioid addiction, is growing in popularity among California doctors as regulatory changes, physician training and other initiatives make the medication more widely accessible. The rate of Medi-Cal enrollees who received buprenorphine nearly quadrupled from the end of 2014 to the third quarter of 2018, according to data …
Analysis: A Health Care Overhaul Could Kill 2 Million Jobs, And That’s OK
As calls for radical health reform grow louder, many on the right, in the center and in the health care industry are arguing that proposals like “Medicare for All” would cause economic ruin, decimating a sector that represents nearly 20% of our economy. While exploring a presidential run, former Starbucks chief Howard Schultz called Medicare …
A Funeral for Two Birds
My great-grandmother was a scientist who did not weep over impermanence, but my cousin and I did.
4 Women With Lives Scarred by Genital Cutting: Could a Surgeon Heal Them?
Over 200 million women and girls alive today have been circumcised. Four of them shared with The Times their pain, emotional trauma and sexual struggles — and their journey to feel whole.
I Can’t Hate My Body if I Love Hers
Sometimes it takes seeing yourself in someone else to appreciate your own health and beauty.
No, Night Owls Aren’t Doomed to Die Early
Despite alarmist headlines and a study that suggested morning people live longer, the truth is more complicated.
To Fight Deadly Candida Auris, New York State Proposes New Tactics
The state health department calls on hospitals to do more to fight Candida auris, a mystery germ spreading the globe.
My Miscarriage Cured My Fear of Childbirth
It was a heartbreaking yet galvanizing preview of what the human body can endure — physically, emotionally and spiritually.