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When people are strong and reliable, we describe them as solid, yet the human body is about 60% water. Let’s face it: even the toughest among us is less like concrete, and more like a walking water balloon. Water is essential to most of our bodily functions, like carrying nutrients to our cells and keeping … Read more

When a 10-month-old boy in Gaza was confirmed to have the poliovirus in late August, the discovery spurred an urgent and desperate public health campaign in the region. Amid the bombs and airstrikes that have rocked Gaza for almost a year since the Hamas attacks of last fall sparked Israel’s onslaught, health care workers there … Read more

There’s a hidden gender gap when it comes to digestive problems, with women taking the lead in this unpleasant contest. While men are hardly immune to gastrointestinal woes, certain digestive problems are considerably more common in women. “Women aren’t broken—they’re just different,” says Dr. Jeanetta Frye, a gastroenterologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. … Read more

This week, Apple announced that its devices will have two new health-related capabilities: your Apple Watch will soon be able to tell if you have sleep apnea, and your AirPods Pro 2 can now double as hearing aids for those who need them. Jeff Williams, chief operating officer at Apple, told TIME in his first … Read more

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. In his ruling, state District Judge Bruce Romanick also said that the law violates the state constitution because it is too vague. [time-brightcove … Read more

Figuring out what to say about someone’s weight gain or loss is really easy if you follow one of the golden rules of modern communication: Never comment on another person’s body.  Not everyone, however, gets the memo. Cherie Miller, an eating disorder and body image therapist in Southlake, Texas, hears often from clients on the … Read more

You could argue that the complications of a disease, rather than the disease itself, create most of the problems associated with that condition. Take hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, a primarily genetic condition that results in a thickening of the walls of the heart—specifically its left ventricle, which is the chamber that pumps blood out of … Read more

Every four years, I become a gymnastics fan. It’s the only summer Olympic sport I reliably seek out, gawking from my couch as the athletes perform tricks that seem to defy the laws of physics and human capability. Since my own gymnastics career ended around the time I entered elementary school—in other words, around the … Read more

Other than water, tea is the most consumed beverage worldwide. And for good reason: tea is great for you, particularly the green variety. Several benefits of green tea are supported by solid research. Others, much less so. For example, influencers sometimes gush about green tea being “nature’s Ozempic,” suggesting it’s as effective as obesity medication. … Read more

Years ago, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman hit a rocky patch in their friendship. For reasons they couldn’t fully articulate, they weren’t communicating or clicking like they once did. Things just felt off. Sow and Friedman are serious about friendship—they co-wrote the book Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close—so they tried something a … Read more