Wearing Hearing Aids May Help You Live Longer

Hearing loss has huge consequences, but you might not know that based on how infrequently it’s treated. Roughly a third of adults who develop hearing loss report never seeing a physician about it—in part because of stigma and fear surrounding aging, disability, and hearing aids. Dr. Janet Choi, an otolaryngologist at Keck Medicine of USC … Read more

U.S. Women Are Stocking Up on Abortion Pills

Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked like the medications might become harder to get. Medication abortion accounts for more than half of all abortions in the U.S., and typically involves two … Read more

Is Eating a Plant-Based Diet Better for You?

It’s no secret that fruits and veggies are good for you. But a new Netflix show, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, shows just how powerful—and fast-acting—they can be. The show features pairs of adult identical twins who participated in a study published in November 2023. For eight weeks, everyone in the study … Read more