Does Clearblue’s Menopause At-Home Test Actually Work?
The maker says the test can clear the confusion. Doctors aren’t so sure.
A Nobel Prize Might Lower a Scientist’s Impact
Winning a Nobel Prize can be a life-changing event. The winners are thrust onto a world stage, and for many scientists the recognition represents the pinnacle of their careers. But what is the effect of winning such a high-profile prize on science? John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at Stanford University, wants to find out. Awards like…
For Black Mothers, Birthing Centers, Once a Refuge, Become a Battleground
Gabrielle Glaze felt scolded and shamed when she delivered her first son in a Birmingham, Ala., hospital, forced to observe strict rules about lying stationary through her contractions and enduring countless cervical checks from “total strangers” who seemed disappointed by her body’s progress. So when Ms. Glaze, 33, gave birth to a second son in…
‘Close to the Line’: Why More Seniors Are Living in Poverty
It has never been easy for Mary Cole to support herself and the 19-year-old grandson who lives with her in Bristol, Va., on her monthly $914 Supplemental Security Income check. But it’s getting harder. “I’ve been struggling a lot,” Ms. Cole said. Because benefits counselors at her local agency on aging have helped her apply…
A Third of Medicaid Recipients With Opioid Use Disorder Aren’t Getting Medication to Treat It
More than half a million Medicaid recipients diagnosed with opioid use disorder did not receive medication to treat it in 2021, according to a new report released Friday by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The report, which examined the use of addiction treatments that almost all Medicaid programs are…
FDA Wants to Oversee Lab Tests It Says Put Patients ‘At Risk’
The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it was moving to close what has widely been viewed as a loophole allowing certain lab tests — like those that determine the profile of a tumor or the genetic health of a fetus — to bypass review with virtually no tracking or oversight. The agency…
The ‘Bristle Reaction’ Is a Common Intimacy Killer in Relationships
For couples in long-term relationships, the “bristle reaction” can make physical connection difficult, experts say.
¿La vitamina C ayuda a la piel? ¿Cuáles productos son los mejores?
El problema es que, aunque este ingrediente sea bueno para el cutis, no es fácil elaborar un producto que funcione de verdad.
An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa
The narrow wooden benches in the student health clinic at Dire Dawa University in Ethiopia’s second-largest city began to fill up in March last year: feverish students slumped against their friends, cradling aching heads in their hands. Helen Asaminew, the presiding nurse, was baffled. The students had the hallmark symptoms of malaria. But people didn’t…
Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
Along hundreds of miles of Lake Victoria’s shoreline in Kenya, a squadron of young scientists and an army of volunteers are waging an all-out war on a creature that threatens the health of more people than any other on earth: the mosquito. They are testing new insecticides and ingenious new ways to deliver them. They…