Natural Cycles, the company behind a controversial FDA-cleared birth control app, is replacing its thermometer with a wristband that measures skin temperature, heart rate, and movement during sleep. T...
Experts weighed in on Trump's "Great Healthcare Plan."...
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Indonesia’s ambitious free nutritious meals programme has fed more than 55 million people in its first year, a scale-up President Prabowo Subianto has hailed as a major step in tackling childhood maln...
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Is ageing a natural stage of life to be honoured or a biological flaw that humanity should overcome?...
Article URL: https://slate.com/life/2026/01/body-books-reading-position-posture-pain.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682931 Points: 5 # Comments: 1...
i've been working with healthcare/biobank data and keep thinking about what "data moats" mean now that llms can ingest anything. some a16z piece from 2019 said moats were eroding — now the question se...
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NASA is returning four astronauts to Earth early from the International Space Station due to a medical concern with one of the Crew-11 astronauts. Here's the latest news....
For the first time in the International Space Station's history, NASA safely returned a crew of four astronauts to Earth ahead of schedule due to medical issues affecting one of the group....
Flu activity remains elevated throughout the United States, with children being hit especially hard, according to newly released data from the CDC....
At least 171 measles cases have been confirmed in the U.S. so far this year, according to newly updated data from the CDC....
Snowboarder Chloe Kim says she's "good to go" for the Olympics despite tearing the labrum in her shoulder during a training run last week....
Measure gives agency slight boost and blocks multiyear awards and cuts to indirect costs...
At least TK measles cases have been reported so far this year, according to newly updated data from the CDC....
Parents of autistic children are clamoring for a prescription vitamin promoted by federal health officials. But there's little evidence the drug will help. (Image credit: Inna Kot/iStock)...
ABC News' Mary Bruce asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt how Trump's plan to "deliver money directly to the American people" — instead of health insurance companies — would work....
A doctor from Nigeria tells what Martin Luther King Jr. taught him about health, Justice and inequality. (Image credit: Stephen F. Somerstein)...
A Tunisian man turns his dying mother’s cancer treatment into a celebration of love, devotion, care and resilience....