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In March 2025, when California ran out of Medicaid funds to pay doctors and hospitals, the state borrowed $3.4 billion to keep the program afloat. It was, as a spokesperson for Gov. Gavin Newsom insisted, nothing new. ...Read more

Late last month, the Trump administration announced that it had cut 760,000 people from the Affordable Care Act rolls, claiming fraud and improper enrollments and touting billions in potential taxpayer savings.

Not all of...Read more

Ultraprocessed foods have a terrible reputation.

Studies have linked them with multiple chronic diseases. Journalists and health influencers characterize them as poison. Some public health experts call for a ...Read more

The U.S. Senate candidates in Texas could hardly be more different: James Talarico, a former seminarian turned Democratic state lawmaker who speaks in calm cadences about love and empathy, and Ken Paxton, the pugnacious ...Read more

Medical health professions use the term “medical home” to describe the partnership between you, your child and your child’s medical team. It is not a house, an office or a hospital, but a plan to care for a child, ...Read more

After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible.

“It was like I was underwater, like it took the most to do anything,” he said.

Meetze stopped taking the drug but endured...Read more

BALTIMORE -- Studies have shown that converting the body’s metabolism from burning sugars and starches to proteins and fats can relieve certain neurological and mental illnesses that have not responded well to standard ...Read more

REM (rapid eye movement) is a sleep stage that happens four to six times a night. During REM, your body is immobilized, you have rapid eye movement (hence REM) and you dream. If you're sleeping well, it accounts for 20% to...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I'm a single male who's happy with his life, with plenty of friends and family. My issue is what I endure during the holidays. Every year, I'm invited over to Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I look forward to ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 68-year-old female who's in great health, except for cholesterol levels that are a tad high. In January, I was diagnosed with a prolapsed bladder. My gynecologist said it was stage 1, and therapy ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: It was disturbing to me to hear in church that God didn’t create all things equal. Does He make distinctions between human life and other created life? Doesn’t the Bible ...Read more

When Victoria Bayle was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 46, her neurologist gave her a prognosis of 10 years.

She didn’t know anyone in her family with the condition, nor were there ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: My twin sister and her husband are expecting their first child. I run a small business with my father. Although I work hard, neither of them seems to see or acknowledge my efforts. They consider me to be "...Read more

Q: Sadly, our daughter is going through a divorce. What can we do as grandparents to help our grandchildren cope with this devastating breakup?

Jim: I'm saddened to hear of this difficult situation. At the same time, your...Read more

People often joke that their favorite snack is “like crack” or call themselves “chocoholics” in jest.

But can someone really be addicted to food in the same way they could be hooked on substances such as...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I have three grown children and seven grandchildren. I have solid relationships with my oldest and youngest, their spouses and their children. My middle daughter, "Hope," has always been distant. I've tried for ...Read more

The year 2026 has been an expensive one for social media platforms.

Since March, YouTube and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, have settled or paid out in multiple lawsuits to the tune of more ...Read more

Treating pregnant women’s depression with a short course of talk therapy doesn’t just improve their health – it can also shape how their babies’ brains develop before birth. That’s the finding of a new study ...Read more

AURORA, Ill. — Weeks before his gun jammed outside a Hindu temple in Aurora, Alexandros Paporakis, 19, of Palatine, etched his name at the bottom of a guardianship petition filed by a close family friend. At the same ...Read more