Category: Health

[ad_1] When Beth Nathan was 10 years old, her pediatrician grabbed her belly and said, “OK! Time to switch to skim milk!” Nathan estimates that she weighed “maybe four pounds more” than her friends at school at that point. Until then, she had never thought much about her body. But the doctor’s comment hit its…

[ad_1] After more than a year of being short of breath, tired, and riddled with heart, motor, cognitive, gastrointestinal, and menstrual issues, Ruth was willing to try anything to make her Long COVID go away. So she turned to psychedelic drugs. Ruth, 31, who asked to be identified by only her first name, had tried…

[ad_1] MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota announced a settlement Monday in its lawsuit against Juul Labs and tobacco giant Altria—the first of thousands of cases against the e-cigarette maker to reach trial—just ahead of closing arguments. The terms will be kept confidential until formal papers are publicly filed with the court in 30 days, Minnesota Attorney General…

[ad_1] Ellie Bridgman spent her Thursday night shift at a local gas station in Union, Missouri, planning for the day she’ll lose access to gender-affirming treatments the transgender and nonbinary 23-year-old credits with making “life worth living.” A first-of-its-kind emergency rule introduced this week by Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey will impose numerous restrictions…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — The Biden administration and a drug manufacturer asked the Supreme Court on Friday to preserve access to an abortion drug free from restrictions imposed by lower court rulings, while a legal fight continues. The Justice Department and Danco Laboratories filed their emergency requests with the high court less than two days after…

[ad_1] When sperm donation first took off in the U.S. in the 1980s, the typical medical advice was to keep it a secret from the kids it helped create. “Doctors were saying to parents, ‘Just pretend that this donor insemination didn’t happen,’” says Susan Golombok, who’s been studying modern methods of family formation for more…

[ad_1] More than a dozen people showed up in November, 2007, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) lab run by Christopher Austin. The parents of children dying from the lethal cholesterol metabolism disorder, Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC), gathered alongside scientists and doctors looking for a treatment. They wanted to work together to find…

[ad_1] TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Republican-dominated Florida Legislature on Thursday approved a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a proposal supported by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis as he prepares for an expected presidential run. DeSantis is expected to sign the bill into law. Florida currently prohibits abortions after 15 weeks. A six-week ban…

[ad_1] When former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. Jane Henney approved the abortion pill mifepristone in 2000, she knew the decision was an important one for women’s health. It would also become incredibly contentious. Henney, now 76, finds herself still defending that approval more than two decades later in 2023. She talked…

[ad_1] The legal questions of if and how the decades-old abortion pill mifepristone can be used are wending their way through the courts. So far, three decisions have been made. In the first, on Apr. 7, a Texas judge ruled to strip mifepristone of its the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. In the…