Year: 2023

The Biden administration has proposed changes to how it would pay private Medicare Advantage plans, setting off a lobbying frenzy. View original article Contributor: Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz

By analyzing seven samples of hair said to have come from Ludwig van Beethoven, researchers debunked myths about the revered composer while raising new questions about his life and death. View original article Contributor: Gina Kolata

The Biden administration announced a plan to modernize how patients are matched to available organs to shorten wait times and reduce the number of people who die while waiting. View original article Contributor: Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Cities in the U.S. and elsewhere have made strides, but challenges remain. View original article Contributor: Jen A. Miller

Obesity has often been thought of as a problem of the developed world, with wealthy countries eating themselves into a state of ill-health with an abundance of ultraprocessed foods, and poorer ones more often suffering from food insecurity. But that’s no longer true. According to a March report from the World Obesity Atlas (WOA), more … Read more

For people who want to prevent pregnancy, birth-control drugs come with an obvious reward. They also come with some small risks—including, for some forms, a slightly increased risk of breast cancer. This has long been known about the most popular type: combined hormonal birth control, which is available in pill, patch, and ring form. These … Read more