Nationwide, poor children and adolescents are participating far less in sports and fitness activities than their more affluent peers.
How Parents Can Talk About Weed With Their Teens
Keep it brief, do your homework … and maybe don’t share your own teenage pot stories.
These Devices Sickened Hundreds. The New Models Have Risks, Too.
Duodenoscopes — tubular cameras threaded into the intestine — with disposable parts were supposed to be safer. But the parts can fall off in the body, the F.D.A. warned.
What’s Behind the ‘Middle-Aged Groan’?
Experts weigh in on the sounds we make when we bend over, stand up and sit down.
Health Providers Scramble to Keep Remaining Staff Amid Medicaid Rate Debate
Andrew Johnson lets his clients choose what music to play in the car. As an employee of Family Outreach in Helena, Montana — an organization that assists developmentally disabled people — part of his workday involves driving around, picking up clients, and taking them to work or to run errands. “What’s up, gangsta?” Johnson said …
Our Second Date Was Statistically Abnormal
And the ensuing beauty, tragedy and pain has been exquisite.
Our Second Date Was Statistically Abnormal
And the ensuing beauty, tragedy and pain has been exquisite.
Sen. Sanders Shows Fire, but Seeks Modest Goals, in His Debut Drug Hearing as Health Chair
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who rose to national prominence criticizing big business in general and the pharmaceutical industry in particular, claimed the spotlight Wednesday on what might at first seem a powerful new stage from which to advance his agenda: chairmanship of the Senate health committee. But the hearing Sanders used to excoriate a billionaire pharmaceutical …
The Policy, and Politics, of Medicare Advantage
The Host Medicare Advantage, the private-sector alternative to original Medicare, now enrolls nearly half of all Medicare beneficiaries. But it remains controversial because — while most of its subscribers like the extra benefits many plans provide — the program frequently costs the federal government more than if those seniors remained in the fully public program. …
Who Is Most At Risk for Long Covid?
A new analysis summarizes the emerging picture of factors that make long-term post-Covid symptoms more likely.