Adding lean pork to your diet could help you live longer, with minimally processed cuts boasting the same health benefits as chickpeas, lentils and beans, scientists say.
Pork has come under fire in recent years, with scientists calling for bacon and ham to carry cigarette-style labels warning that the chemicals used in the manufacturing process cause bowel cancer.
But in a new study, US researchers found that introducing minimally processed red meat in a plant-forward diet could have a positive effect on biomarkers of cognitive and physical ageing. Continue reading
Banner Health’s University Medical Center Phoenix became the first hospital in the United States to successfully perform a new procedure aimed at treating patients with leaky heart valves.
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban isn’t letting the absurdity of America’s healthcare costs slide – not when a scan can cost more than some used cars.
The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Trump announced — on the first day of his second term — that America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday. 
Adults who use generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools every day – especially for personal, non-work reasons – show significantly higher rates of depression than those who use them less often or not at all, according to a new national survey of more than 20,000 people.
The modern American health insurance system didn’t emerge because someone designed it thoughtfully, and it shows. It evolved from a series of political, economic, and cultural accidents beginning largely around the period of World War II. As with many political redistribution schemes, once underway, the system has snowballed into the unsustainable trajectory we see today.
On December 5, 2025, the CDC’s ACIP committee voted 8-3 to end the automatic Hep B shot for every newborn. For the first time since 1991 hospitals can no longer treat every baby as if they were born to an infected mother.
Liz Moore’s son Bodin struggled from birth: feeding and sleeping problems, followed by developmental and academic delays, social awkwardness, and finally an ADHD diagnosis at age 6. 
The costs of at least 350 drugs in the U.S. are expected to rise in 2026, according to a new analysis, despite many of the drugmakers pledging to offer more favorable prices under new Trump administration policies.
US drug prices are set to rise again in 2026, with drugmakers planning increases on at least 350 branded medicines, according to new data from healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.
If you opened your mail-order pharmacy box this month only to find a 30-day supply of your maintenance meds instead of your usual 90-day bottle, you’ve hit a 2026 “Quantity Limit” wall. Across the country, prescription auto-refills are switching quantities without explicit patient approval, leaving many seniors to manage three times as many shipments. This isn’t a mistake by the pharmacist; it is a direct result of new 2026 insurance quantity limit policies designed to control costs as the new $2,000 Part D out-of-pocket cap goes into full effect. By shortening your supply, insurers can more closely monitor your “adherence” and reduce the financial risk of “wasted” medication that occurs when a patient’s dosage changes mid-quarter.
UnitedHealth’s decision to push roughly one million seniors out of its Medicare Advantage products marks a break from the incremental tweaks that usually define this market. For older Americans who built their budgets and care relationships around these plans, the shift is not an abstract business story but a direct hit to how they will access doctors, drugs, and hospitals next year. I see it as the clearest sign in two decades that the balance of power between giant insurers and aging consumers is tilting again, and not in favor of retirees.
The root cause of our current health care affordability crisis is a broken market structure on the supply side resulting in out-of-control costs. The (apparently) core public policy issues: insurance, pre-existing conditions, employment linkage, lack of portability, the extent of coverage, denials, out of pocket costs, and deductibles would all become non-issues if health care was a normal expense that people could afford out of their income. 