Obesity Role Models

A new role

By modeling healthy behaviors, older men can help prevent childhood obesity

How to stop peeing when you laugh

Women Laugh Pee

Children's Health

Losing just 30 minutes of sleep each night can impact a child's well-being, research shows

Sleep health children

Candida auris, a deadly fungal infection, is spreading rapidly in hospitals. Here's what to know

Candida auris infections

Health Insurance

Independence bolsters access to gene-based therapies used to treat rare, inherited health conditions

IBX Gene Therapy

To reduce infant deaths, Philly will give guaranteed incomes to 250 mothers

Infant mortality

Exercise can boost mental health – and may be as effective at treating depression as drugs

Exercise mental health

Children's Health

Pandemic stress, gangs, and utter fear fueled a rise in teen shootings

Teen shootings pandemic

Can eating poppy seeds affect drug test results? An addiction and pain medicine specialist explains

Poppy seeds drug tests

Deer ticks are fueling the rise of a flu-like illness that isn't Lyme disease

Deer Tick Babesiosis

Maternal deaths have surged to their highest mark since 1965, despite being mostly preventable

U.S. maternal mortality

How parents can help their children maintain a healthy weight

Children healthy eating habits

Insulin prices to drop later this year as Novo Nordisk follows Eli Lilly's reduction

Novolog Insulin Price

EPA to restrict hazardous 'forever chemicals' in drinking water

Forever Chemicals Water PFAS

Sepsis can kill a person within 12 hours; here's how to recognize its symptoms

Sepsis symptoms

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