by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Health
One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy — and would be using he/him pronouns. “OK, cool,” his mother, J, remembered saying. (J...
by News Feed Editor | Jun 23, 2026 | Health
Getty Images/SolStockMichelle RobertsDigital health editor6 hours agoWhether it’s responding to emails or taking video calls, so much of office life revolves around being planted on a chair.But the habit is damaging our health. Prolonged sitting can increase the...
by News Feed Editor | Jun 23, 2026 | Health
Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2½-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in his spine to treat his back pain. But this year,...
by News Feed Editor | Jun 23, 2026 | Health
Copy Cara Anthony tries to convince her HealthQ co-host Blake Farmer that there are benefits to embracing the caregiver identity when helping an aging parent. (Candice Evers for WPLN and KFF Health News) When his father was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer in 2025,...
by News Feed Editor | Jun 22, 2026 | Health
Family photoJim ReedHealth reporter23 June 2026, 00:44 BSTThe first drug that can delay the onset of type 1 diabetes is being made available on the NHS in England and Wales.Teplizumab is a form of immunotherapy that can give people three extra years before they...
by News Feed Editor | Jun 22, 2026 | Health
“But for me, following the clinical advice, basing future decisions on clinical evidence, is the right way to move forward in the context of me having received the most robust assurances about the safeguards which are in place to protect young people involved in...
