What compels someone to keep engaging in alcohol use, even if it damages their health, relationships and wellbeing? A new study from Scripps Research offers an important clue: a small midline brain region plays a key role in how animals learn to…
Category: 5. Health
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4 Reasons Why Fear And Anxiety Are More Than Just Simple Feelings
Young student who is anxious and afraid
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According to a 2025 report on PRNewsWire.com, 93% of young adults between the ages of 18-28 plan to celebrate Halloween this year and spend an average of $622 on items such as costumes, candy, and…
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You don’t have to lose weight to lower your diabetes risk, scientists say
Until now, weight reduction has been the primary therapeutic goal for people with prediabetes. An analysis of a large Tübingen study shows that patients who bring their blood sugar levels back within the normal range through a healthy lifestyle…
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Health insurance subsidy standoff pits affordable care for millions against federal budget constraints
As the federal government entered a shutdown on Oct. 1, 2025, competing narratives quickly emerged about the cause.
Some Republican lawmakers objected to Democrats’ push to include an extension of the expanded Affordable Care Act…
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The Hidden Reason For Americans’ Declining Trust In Their Doctors
For more than half a century, physicians ranked among the most trusted professionals in America. Today, that trust has eroded.
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For more than half a century, physicians ranked among the most trusted professionals in America. Even before modern…
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A Bipartisan Path To Save Medicare’s Home Health Benefit
Home healthcare plays a vital role for many Americans.
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Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that runs the Medicare program, issued a proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system….
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Nobel Prize Awarded To 3 Scientists For Immune System Discoveries
TOPSHOT – (L-R) The portraits of Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are displayed during a press conference where the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine are being announced at the Karolinska Institute in…
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New research reveals what’s really hiding in bottled water
The sun-drenched paradise of Thailand’s Phi Phi islands isn’t the usual starting point for a PhD. But for Sarah Sajedi, those soft, sandy beaches – or rather, what she found under them -inspired her pivot from a business career to an academic…
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New oral GLP-1 drugs could offer more options for weight loss
GLP-1 injections use needles and require refrigeration. Pills that work in a similar way could be a cheaper, simpler solution.
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