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SAN FRANCISCO — Matt Wilsey adjusted the plastic tube coming out of his 15-year-old daughter’s stomach and tried, again, not to think beyond the next 15 minutes. His job was to be there

The Great American State Fair in Washington wraps up this week. During its two-week run, the programming included two “MAHA Mondays,” which featured speakers and administration officials representing the Make America Healthy

WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is preparing to make it easier for people to claim that they were injured by a Covid-19 vaccine and receive compensation.  Kennedy is set

Longevity entrepreneur Bryan Johnson shared some bad news on social media recently. “I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself,” he wrote on X. The good news? “I’m going to

For the second year in a row, many Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing double-digit premium increases, driven by rising medical costs as well as policy changes by Congress and the Trump

Could a lifesaving lung transplant strategy that contained the Covid-19 virus also save patients whose advanced lung cancer hasn’t spread?  That’s the question that inspired surgeons and oncologists at Northwestern Medicine to

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You get a CGM, you get a CGM, everybody gets a CGM? For the first time in the United States, children 2 and older can also get a continuous glucose monitor without

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Amy Bielawski has gone most of her life without health insurance.  For 32 years, the 61-year-old has run her own entertainment company in Tucker, Ga. — setting up bounce houses, petting zoos,