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Health By Stephanie Nolen from NYT Health https://ift.tt/qTajf82 via IFTTT In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.

Health By Benjamin Mueller from NYT Health https://ift.tt/jXKOJt8 via IFTTT Avian Influenza, Vaccination and Immunization, Livestock, Birds, Influenza Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature.

Health By Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/b02Pnk6 via IFTTT your-feed-science, Weight, Doctors, Obesity, Preventive Medicine It may be a longstanding practice, but critics say routine weight measurements are driving some patients away from care.

Health By Emily Baumgaertner from NYT Health https://ift.tt/TAvnJ1a via IFTTT your-feed-science, Autism, Disabilities, Children and Childhood, Research, Vaccination and Immunization, Presidential Election of 2024, Intellectual Disabilities, Genetics and Heredity, Disease Rates, your-feed-healthcare There is no one factor that causes autism — or explains its growing prevalence. Researchers are seeking explanations for the surge. Here are some possibilities.

Health By Rebecca Robbins from NYT Health https://ift.tt/fRISrhT via IFTTT Television, Advertising and Marketing, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, News and News Media, Conflicts of Interest, First Amendment (US Constitution) Attempts to restrict pharmaceutical advertisements have failed many times over the years, often on First Amendment grounds.

Health By Virginia Hughes from NYT Health https://ift.tt/rhpmAaq via IFTTT Genetic Engineering, Brain, Psychology and Psychologists, Genetics and Heredity, Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia, Stem Cells, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Doctors, your-feed-healthcare A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?

Health By Paula Span from NYT Health https://ift.tt/msJ2GHu via IFTTT Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Drugstores, Elderly, Medicare, Doctors, Medicaid, Shopping and Retail Shuttered drugstores pose a particular threat to older adults, who take more medications than younger people and often rely on pharmacies for advice.

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Health By Christina Jewett from NYT Health https://ift.tt/BsyFETK via IFTTT Labeling and Labels (Product), Food, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Diet and Nutrition, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Oils and Fats, United States Politics and Government, Presidential Election of 2024, Salt, Processed and Ultraprocessed Foods, Advertising and Marketing, Factories and Manufacturing, Containers and Packaging The Food and Drug Administration released final rules on labeling foods as “healthy,” tightening limits for sugar, sodium and saturated fat.

Health By Stephanie Nolen from NYT Health https://ift.tt/6PzXEDh via IFTTT Medicine and Health, Foreign Aid, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Vaccination and Immunization, Developing Countries, Philanthropy, Malaria, Budgets and Budgeting The U.S. provides nearly half of the aid for global health, including childhood vaccination, H.I.V. treatment and disease surveillance.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/S8VULta via IFTTT your-feed-science, Avian Influenza, Disease Rates, Disasters and Emergencies, Dairy Products, Epidemics, Livestock Diseases Officials have discovered the virus in 645 herds of dairy cattle, more than in any other state so far.

Health By Brendan Borrell from NYT Health https://ift.tt/CdDyj9L via IFTTT Dietary Supplements and Herbal Remedies, Vaccination and Immunization, Doctors, Diet and Nutrition, Autism, Vitamins, Medicine and Health, your-feed-healthcare Dr. Mark Hyman, a “functional medicine” proponent and longtime friend of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is finding powerful allies in his bid to treat disease with blood tests and supplements.

Health By Stephanie Nolen and Arlette Bashizi from NYT Health https://ift.tt/w1EKQg0 via IFTTT Vaccination and Immunization, Children and Childhood, Disease Rates, Medicine and Health, Developing Countries, Measles, your-feed-science, your-feed-healthcare Problems with getting vaccines to families have left many children unvaccinated and in danger of contracting the virus.

Health By Christina Jewett and Sheryl Gay Stolberg from NYT Health https://ift.tt/bPUoKXC via IFTTT Vaccination and Immunization, Poliomyelitis, Medicine and Health, Disease Rates, Deaths (Fatalities), Children and Childhood, United States Politics and Government, Babies and Infants, Research, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Measles, Presidential Transition (US) President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S.

Health By Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/JHq9hNG via IFTTT your-feed-science, Kidneys, Transplants, Genetic Engineering, Dialysis, Pigs, Surgery and Surgeons, Immune System The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.

Health By Andrew Jacobs from NYT Health https://ift.tt/X0vNt4e via IFTTT Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic Drugs, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Anxiety and Stress, Psychiatry and Psychiatrists, Depression (Mental), Death and Dying, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Research, Veterans, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Hospice Care, Ketamine (Drug), Cancer People are turning to psilocybin, ketamine and other treatments for palliative care.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/UG9TKCe via IFTTT your-feed-science, Vaccination and Immunization, Children and Childhood, Immune System, Whooping Cough, Smallpox, Bacteria, Proteins Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.

Health By Sheryl Gay Stolberg from NYT Health https://ift.tt/mzMsyJn via IFTTT Vaccination and Immunization, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Research, Disease Rates, Clinical Trials, Placebos, Paralysis, Medicine and Health, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Children and Childhood, Viruses, your-feed-science, your-feed-healthcare A lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the F.D.A. to withdraw approval of the current shot because it hasn’t been tested against a placebo. Scientists say such a test would be unethical.

Health By Emily Baumgaertner from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3y7ODct via IFTTT your-feed-science, Immigration Detention, Illegal Immigration, Children and Childhood, Family Separation Policy (US Immigration), Suits and Litigation (Civil), Immigration and Emigration, Youth, your-feed-healthcare A 2022 legal settlement established requirements to protect the health of minors detained at segments of the southern border. It ends nine days after Donald Trump takes office.

Health By Emily Baumgaertner from NYT Health https://ift.tt/71Z9SMc via IFTTT your-feed-science, Children and Childhood, Vaccination and Immunization, Disease Rates, Medicine and Health, Measles, Infections, Meningitis, Mumps, Whooping Cough Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.

Health By Matt Richtel from NYT Health https://ift.tt/uM4CSPF via IFTTT Pornography, Parenting, Teenagers and Adolescence, Children and Childhood, Psychology and Psychologists, your-feed-health, your-feed-science Odds are your adolescent has already encountered online pornography. Your role is to openly address it, scholars say.

Health By Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/JkXtBjv via IFTTT your-feed-science, your-feed-health, your-feed-animals, Avian Influenza, Animals, Agriculture and Farming, Birds, Respiratory Diseases, Viruses, Pets, Cats, Influenza A new study highlights the need for public health officials to ramp up bird flu surveillance in our feline companions.

Health By Christina Jewett from NYT Health https://ift.tt/GVrYDmh via IFTTT Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, United States Politics and Government, Nicotine, Smoking and Tobacco, Presidential Election of 2024, your-feed-healthcare, Presidential Transition (US) The agency is asking the White House, in the final days of the Biden era, to move ahead with plans to drastically reduce the addictive substance in traditional tobacco cigarettes.

Health By Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/RUkJvbC via IFTTT your-feed-science, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Tests (Medical), Cervical Cancer, Cervix, Cancer, Women and Girls, Vagina, Age, Chronological, Human Papillomavirus (HPV), Disease Rates Starting at 30, women can collect their own vaginal samples for HPV testing at a doctor’s office.

Health By Unknown Author from NYT Health https://ift.tt/XRUw6et via IFTTT More than 75 laureates have written an open letter describing Mr. Kennedy’s selection for H.H.S. secretary as detrimental to public health.

Health By Teddy Rosenbluth from NYT Health https://ift.tt/SDWZ96s via IFTTT Presidential Election of 2024, Appointments and Executive Changes, Medicine and Health, Presidential Transition (US), Politics and Government, United States Politics and Government, Nobel Prizes, Vaccination and Immunization Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

Health By Ellen Barry and Graham Dickie from NYT Health https://ift.tt/fhGwTa9 via IFTTT Education (K-12), Computers and the Internet, Police, Suicides and Suicide Attempts, Children and Childhood, Laptop Computers, Mental Health and Disorders, Education (Secondary), Teachers and School Employees, your-feed-science, your-feed-healthcare New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?

Health By Katie Thomas and Jessica Silver-Greenberg from NYT Health https://ift.tt/jM2CyI8 via IFTTT Methadone, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Therapy and Rehabilitation, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Opioids and Opiates, Mental Health and Disorders, Addiction (Psychology), your-feed-healthcare Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who aren’t addicted to opioids, a Times investigation found.

Health By Teddy Rosenbluth from NYT Health https://ift.tt/wHNU4SI via IFTTT Heatstroke, Heat and Heat Waves, Deaths (Fatalities), Global Warming, Research, Labor and Jobs, Elderly, Workplace Hazards and Violations It’s not the just the elderly. More than three-quarters of heat-related deaths in Mexico occurred among people younger than 35, researchers reported.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes from NYT Health https://ift.tt/MiyCQ2a via IFTTT your-feed-science, your-feed-health, your-feed-animals, Agriculture and Farming, Avian Influenza, Milk, Dairy Products, Cattle, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Viruses The new rules call for testing unpasteurized milk from dairies across the country and for farm owners to provide details that would help officials identify and track cases more easily.

Health By Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/5toAvHq via IFTTT your-feed-science, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Anesthesia and Anesthetics, Medicaid Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield officials had planned to roll out the changes nationwide but said they were misunderstood.

Health By Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3LY7z1M via IFTTT your-feed-science, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Anesthesia and Anesthetics, Medicaid Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield officials had planned to roll out the changes nationwide but said they were misunderstood.

Health By Reed Abelson from NYT Health https://ift.tt/jnog7Nf via IFTTT Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Content Type: Personal Profile, Medicine and Health Mr. Thompson managed a division that employs about 140,000 people and offers insurance plans to employers and individuals.

Health By Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/pkNMJog via IFTTT your-feed-science, Hazardous and Toxic Substances, Pesticides, Chemicals, Children and Childhood, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Decisions and Verdicts, Federal-State Relations (US), Food, Agriculture and Farming, Vegetables, Environment, Diet and Nutrition, Suits and Litigation (Civil), Water Pollution, Insects, Nerves and Nervous System, Pollution, Intelligence and Intelligence Tests (IQ), Appeals Courts (US) After a court overturned a ban, the agency has proposed restricting chlorpyrifos to 11 food crops, illustrating the limits of federal regulation.

Health By Sarah Kliff from NYT Health https://ift.tt/zNdx36f via IFTTT Rural Areas, Hospitals, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Labor and Jobs, your-feed-healthcare, Research Labor and delivery units are losing money and struggling to find staff, in rural areas and large cities alike.

Health By Teddy Rosenbluth from NYT Health https://ift.tt/kcTYphL via IFTTT Fast Food Industry, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Recalls and Bans of Products, E Coli (Bacteria), Food, Onions, Hamburgers Federal health agencies closed their investigations into the bacterial outbreak that sickened 104 people and was linked to onions on the fast-food chain’s signature Quarter Pounders.

Health By Rachel E. Gross from NYT Health https://ift.tt/yrshT4V via IFTTT Ovaries, Hysterectomies, Uterus, Menopause, Ovarian Cancer, Hormones, Women and Girls, Surgery and Surgeons, Medicine and Health, Fibroids, Cervix, Infertility, Vagina, Estrogen, Content Type: Personal Profile Patients often are in the dark about which organs remain and which were removed — particularly the ovaries, which profoundly influence lifelong health.

Health By Teddy Rosenbluth and Emily Anthes from NYT Health https://ift.tt/5Hb9Gk8 via IFTTT your-feed-science, Vaccination and Immunization, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Research, United States Politics and Government, Disease Rates, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Epidemics, Deaths (Fatalities), Science and Technology, Rumors and Misinformation, Diabetes, Budgets and Budgeting, Medicine and Health, Presidential Transition (US), Doctors The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.