Category: 4. Health

The Trump administration’s firing and furloughing of tens of thousands of federal workers and contractors have obviously caused economic hardship for Americans employed in national parks, research labs and dozens of government agencies.

As a professor of social work who studies how people’s finances affect their physical and mental well-being, I’m concerned about the health hazards they’ll face too.

My research shows that losing your job can seriously harm your physical and…

Americans pay more for prescription drugs than citizens in any other country—so much more that the U.S. accounts for half of world sales revenue from pharmaceuticals, but only consumes 13 percent of the total volume of prescription drugs. Compared to other wealthy nations in the Organization for Economic…

After more than a decade as an emergency room doctor, Brent Asplin was fed up. He saw too many patients come in needing treatment for chronic diseases that would have been better addressed if they had a primary care physician, who could help with their underlying conditions. But instead, they were in the ER, getting treated at high cost. “It was much easier for…

Two new studies released in 2025 provide a mixed picture of how well our current antivirals are holding up against H5N1, the highly pathogenic bird flu virus that continues to spill over into mammals and humans. The good news: H5N1 viruses from recent human cases remain susceptible to frontline antiviral drugs. More concerning is a resistance mutation that emerged and spread rapidly during a poultry outbreak in Canada, raising flags about the virus’s potential to evolve past our…

Neighborhood status was determined by factors such as income, employment, education and disability.

“Our findings show…

“This review shows that better heart health is associated with larger brain volumes,…

This was a bad twist in USC’s hopes to win the NCAA women’s basketball championship. Just five minutes into the Trojans’ 96-59 win over Mississippi State in…

The movement to expand access to behavioral health care is gaining momentum, but one community has…

The team, led by engineers from the University of Leeds, say this is the first time it has been possible to generate high-resolution three-dimensional ultrasound images taken from a probe deep inside the gastrointestinal tract, or gut.

It paves the way to a transformation of the diagnosis and treatment of several forms of cancer by…

A new study from the University of Mississippi shows that when healthy adults pair an eight-hour eating window with regular exercise, they lose more fat — without sacrificing lean muscle — compared to exercise alone, according to a study released in theInternational Journal of Obesity, which is published by the Nature Publishing Group.

“We saw that this…