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Severe obesity is becoming a bigger problem in the United States, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The data found that the prevalence…

Just 44 percent of jails offer incarcerated people with opioid use disorder medications like methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone to treat addiction, according to a new analysis of 1,028 jails from…

Men and women don’t experience pain the same way. Give someone an electric shock; bind a tourniquet tighter and tighter around their leg; submerge their hand in icy water; prick…

Senate Republicans are waving former President Trump away from making another foray into health care reform, fearing he might repeat the mistakes he made in 2017 by getting sucked into…

Nearly 40 percent of Generation Z men do not have a primary care provider, according to a Cleveland Clinic survey.   The survey defines Generation Z as including people born…

First lady Jill Biden announced Monday that the Pentagon intends to commit $500 million to women’s health research as part of a broader White House push to increase funding for…

A top Senate Democrat is pressing hospitals in states with abortion bans about how they are complying with a federal emergency care law, following reports about women who need emergency…

A broad majority of Hispanic adults believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a recent Associated Press poll. The survey’s main finding — 67 percent…

Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, now a frequent critic of the party, said Sunday he thinks Vice President Harris will win the general election, flipping North Carolina and…

For 20 years, doctors told Diana Falzone her pain was normal. “Well, that’s just how it is for some women,” she remembers one saying after she began experiencing unusually heavy…