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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tends to favor health choices he sees as natural — whether that means eating “real food” like meat and vegetables instead of ultra-processed food or suggesting, falsely, that

WASHINGTON — The White House wants Congress to cut spending on the Department of Health and Human Services by more than 12%, according to its proposed 2027 federal budget, released Friday.  The

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week against Colorado’s ban on licensed mental health providers engaging in gender and sexuality “conversion therapy” could narrow the authority of state medical boards to regulate

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed including microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first time, a step that could eventually lead to new limits on those

Love it or hate it, BMI is back in the news. But that’s just the starting point in a debate over how to define obesity. Critics have long faulted the weight-divided-by-height-squared measure

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Few things will give a man as much of an insight into the female body as growing up with sisters. Painful, irregular periods, body hair, skin trouble: Al Barrus, a 43-year-old veteran

Ketamine treatment clinics have proliferated following the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug as a remedy for acute depression in 2019, leading to a Wild West of infusion clinics that