Month: February 2025

Feb. 25 (UPI) — A Texas measles outbreak has doubled in the last week to 124 cases, state health officials said Tuesday, a day after they warned a person infected … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Remember fretting over the perfect shade of concealer to match your skin tone and cover your blemishes? Those days are over: now, there’s a new generation of blemish bandages that are practically fashion statements. You can put on a bright yellow star-shaped patch, a purple butterfly, or another whimsical shape to cover your pimples. It’s … Read more

It’s impossible to predict when you’re going to die. But if you’re aiming for a long and healthy life, it pays to worry less about your genes—which you can’t change anyway—and more about your lifestyle and surroundings. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Nature Medicine that takes a broad look at the longstanding … Read more

I’m a psychologist, and AI is coming for my job. The signs are everywhere: a client showing me how ChatGPT helped her better understand her relationship with her parents; a friend ditching her in-person therapist to process anxiety with Claude; a startup raising $40 million to build a super-charged-AI-therapist. The other day on TikTok, I … Read more

KINSHASA — An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between the onset of symptoms—which include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding—and death has been 48 hours in most cases and “that’s … Read more

Patient advocacy groups had decried the firings, and lobbying groups rushed to save some slots that were in part funded by the private sector. View original article Contributor: Rachel Roubein, Lena H. Sun

World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after reportedly eating a bat carcass. View original article Contributor: Vivian Ho

A movement to tend to sick patients in their own beds and familiar surroundings is growing. View original article Contributor: Lola Butcher

Federal regulators will no longer require patients to provide blood tests before receiving the drug from pharmacies. View original article Contributor: Ellen Barry