February 5, 2025, 5:55am Food
In Carlene Thomas’ experience, two types of people ask her advice as a dietitian about the healthiest way to prepare vegetables. Read story
February 4, 2025, 12:06pm Health
A group of families with transgender children filed a lawsuit Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s executive order to halt federal support for gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19. Read story
February 4, 2025, 8:52am Health
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, cleared his first hurdle on Tuesday to become the nation’s top health official when the Senate finance committee voted to advance his nomination for a floor vote. Read story
February 4, 2025, 8:25am Health
Samoa’s top health official on Monday denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made during his bid to become U.S. health secretary, rejecting his claim that some who died in the country’s 2019 measles epidemic didn’t have the disease. Read story
February 4, 2025, 6:06am Food
Supermarket beverage aisles are starting to look a lot more like a pharmacy. Read story
February 4, 2025, 6:05am Health
Monitoring of the body’s blood sugar is essential to the treatment of diabetes. But getting effective glucose readings has long been a challenge, according to UW Medicine Diabetes Institute professor Irl Hirsch. Read story
February 4, 2025, 5:58am Health
In 1942, during its fight against the Soviet Union, Finland launched a novel campaign to keep the Red Army at bay: Raitis tammikuu, or “Sober January.” The monthlong sobriety challenge — one of the first Dry Januarys in history — was meant to encourage Finns to lay off the bottle… Read story
February 4, 2025, 5:56am Health
To some people, the word “yoga” evokes ritualistic chanting, long breaths and slow movement. To others, it means contorting your body into ever more complicated positions until sweat drips onto the mat. In reality, it can be both — with a lot of variation in between. It depends on the… Read story