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Modesto Car Accident Study
A recent study analyzed the car accidents in the city of Modesto and the surrounding cities in Stanislaus County. The findings give in sight to the most dangerous days and times to drive in the Modesto area. They also serve as a warning to all drivers. Traffic...
Why It’s So Hard to Change Our Habits
X Reasons Why We Find It So Hard to Change Habits If you've done something a certain way your entire life, it will be incredibly difficult for you to change your pattern of behavior around it. This ranges from directly harmful habits, like routinely consuming harmful...
Autism Is a Spectrum: Here’s What That Really Means
What Do People Mean When They Say Autism Is a Spectrum? Autism is a relatively common developmental disability that most of us are at least somewhat familiar with. In the past couple of decades, experts have begun to refer to autism as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD),...
Occupational Hazards: The Industries Most Affected by Mesothelioma
Which Industries Have Been Most Affected by Mesothelioma? Mesothelioma is a frustrating and deadly disease that impacts thousands of people every year. And the more we learn about the causal factors of the disease and its relationship with asbestos, the more it...
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An Arm and a Leg: Charity-Care Nonprofit Scales Up and Doubles Down
As premium payments for Affordable Care Act insurance plans soar and cuts to Medicaid start to affect hospitals and patients, many people in 2026 will need help paying medical bills. And charity care may be a solution. One group working on this is Dollar For, a...
Sick of Fighting Insurers, Hospitals Offer Their Own Medicare Advantage Plans
Ever since Larry Wilkewitz retired more than 20 years ago from a wood products company, he’s had a commercial Medicare Advantage plan from the insurer Humana. But two years ago, he heard about Peak Health, a new Advantage plan started by the West Virginia University...
‘I spent £2,000 on one event’: Why Gen Z is obsessed with Hyrox
6 hours agoShareSaveAnnabel RackhamShareSaveBBCHyrox is a fitness craze that shows no signs of dying out - with 1.3m people expected to compete in an event somewhere in the world this year.The competition, which is split between running and fitness exercises, has...
Thousands of children facing ‘catastrophic’ waits for NHS community care
6 hours agoShareSaveNick Triggle,Health correspondentandElena Bailey,Health reporterShareSaveGetty ImagesTens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care such as hearing services, speech and language therapy and...
NHS cancer gene database to identify patients at risk
A new NHS database of genes linked to cancer could enable patients and their families in England to find out whether they are at risk of developing the disease.People will be able to have their genetic information compared to the world-first register of 120 genes...
Why Medication Abortion Is the Top Target for Anti-Abortion Groups in 2026
This week would have marked the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide — that is, until 2022, when the court overturned it. Since then, abortion has been banned in 13 states and severely limited in 10...
US officially leaves World Health Organization
The US has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving the UN agency without one of its biggest donors.US President Donald Trump signed an executive order signalling the withdrawal a year ago, having criticised the organisation for being too...
What the Health? From KFF Health News: Health Spending Is Moving in Congress
The Host Congress appears ready to approve a spending bill for the Department of Health and Human Services for the first time in years — minus the dramatic cuts proposed by the Trump administration. Lawmakers are also nearing passage of a health measure, including new...
Streeting says NHS ‘falling short’ on autism and ADHD
The Health Secretary has admitted the NHS is "falling short" on meeting demand for adult autism and ADHD diagnosis.Speaking to BBC Radio Oxford, he was responding to a question about adult referrals having been paused in Oxfordshire since 2024.But he said it was a...
Farmers Now Owe a Lot More for Health Insurance
Meghan and John Palmer own Prairie Star Farm in Allamakee County, Iowa. They say rising health care costs add to the financial pressures many farm families face.(Meghan Palmer) Last year was a tough one for farmers. Amid falling prices for commodity crops such as corn...
A bleak midwinter as care continues in the corridors
12 hours agoShareSaveKarl MercerBBC London political editorShareSaveBBCMatthew Trainer thinks this is the hardest winter he can remember.He's the chief executive of Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust - and says the number of people coming...
As US Is Poised To Lose Measles-Free Status, RFK Jr.’s New CDC Deputy Downplays Its Significance
After a year of ongoing measles outbreaks that have sickened more than 2,400 people, the United States is poised to lose its status as a measles-free country. However, the newly appointed principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...