Category: 4. Health

Fighting fungi isn’t easy.

Season two of the streaming series The Last of Us has arrived on Max (light spoilers ahead), bringing viewers back to a world where people combat zombies puppeteered by a mind-controlling fungus. Guns and flames help the characters survive onscreen. In the real world, fighting fungal infections is less action-packed, but no less fraught.

At the heart of the show is Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a girl immune to the pandemic fungus. The new season picks up…

Republicans in Congress intend to cut about US$880 billion in federal health care spending.

One of their primary targets is Medicaid. That government program covers 82 million Americans with health insurance. Most of the people enrolled in the program are low income, have disabilities, or both.

Medicaid, jointly funded by the federal government and the states, is also the biggest funder in the U.S. of long-term care services, whether they are delivered in the patient’s home,…

President Donald Trump didn’t…

Physician assistants are increasing in number and so is their pay, eclipsing $130,000 a year, according to new data from two groups.

The American Academy of Physician…

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On Truth Social, President Trump posted yesterday that the United States “will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price…

When Angel City FC defender and captain Ali Riley found herself out for the NWSL 2025 season due to an injury she was presented with a unique opportunity to consider family planning; an area of many women athletes’ lives…

Across the body, tiny bean-shaped structures called mitochondria turn the food we eat into usable energy. This cellular-level metabolism is especially important in muscle cells, which require a lot of fuel to power our movement. However, 1 in 5,000 people is born with dysfunctional mitochondria, and many others develop metabolic dysfunction later in life in…

Changes to the tackle height law in women’s community rugby in Scotland is linked to reductions in head-to-head and head-to shoulder contacts, the study found.

A study compared more than 11,000 tackles between the 2022/23 season, before the reduced tackle height law was trialed and the 2023/24 season when it was introduced.

Experts found 21 per cent…