Category: 4. Health

Imagine your physician prescribed an expensive new drug for you, hopeful it will control a serious chronic illness. Concerned about its price, you ask what your out-of-pocket costs will be. To help your physician, you even pull out details of your insurance coverage.

But even with this information in mind, don’t expect your physician to be able to estimate your costs. The complexity of American health insurance coverage has many physicians bamboozled.

Here is proof of that claim,…

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday canceled a $590 million contract with Moderna to develop an avian flu vaccine, the US biotech company said.

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A cholera outbreak in Sudan’s capital has killed 70 people in two days, health officials said, as Khartoum battles a fast-spreading epidemic amid a collapse of basic services.

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Researchers have uncovered that some childhood cancers have a substantially higher number of DNA changes than previously thought, changing the way we view children’s tumors and possibly opening up new or repurposed treatment options.

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Want a COVID-19 vaccination this fall? For many Americans, it’s not clear how easy it will be to get one—or if they’ve lost the choice.

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Once a playground of Silicon Valley visionaries and male-driven biohackers, the longevity space is being fundamentally reimagined, and this time, it’s women who are leading the charge. They’re reframing aging not as a race against time but as a vibrant, dynamic and data-driven practice grounded in hormonal intelligence, precision health and embodied self-leadership.

In contrast to the male-coded archetype of lifespan…

On May 27, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer include the COVID-19 vaccine on the list of immunizations it recommends for healthy children and pregnant women.

The announcement, made in a video posted on the social platform X, comes on the heels of another announcement, made on May 20, in which the Food and Drug Administration revealed that it will approve new versions of the…

In a study published today in Brain, researchers led by Université de Montréal associate professor of neuroscience Martine Tétreault show that some cell types in the immune system are activated more in patients who have Parkinson’s.

“Thanks to a new technology called…