This generation of young people is dealing with extreme stress. On top of school life, social pressure, navigating relationships with family and friends, and all the standard challenges of growing up, they’re also worried…
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Nearly two years ago, my husband and I left home for a skiing trip, excited and hopeful for carefree days on the mountain, and a much needed escape from our everyday routines. We never…
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Direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform Hims & Hers launched a new weight loss program Monday that offers weight loss medications, educational content and digital tracking tools.
San Francisco-based Hims & Hers is a health and wellness platform…
The combination of medicine and information technology have at times created dissonance and dynamic tension. Medicine has historically relied on a slow, deliberate build-up to amass a body of evidence. Whereas development of information…
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When I was practicing as a community pharmacist, I saw patients walk away from the counter without their prescription because they couldn’t pay for a drug they needed. I saw patients expecting that their…
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About two-thirds of adults in the U.S. drink alcohol, but about one in three are trying to drink less. Sunnyside, which announced it raised $11.5 million in Series A funding last week, aims to…
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This week, a startup joined forces with one of the nation’s most prestigious health systems to improve care for patients with chronic gastrointestinal conditions. More than 70 million Americans — 25% of the commercially…
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While breast cancer garners widespread attention, mental health awareness often lingers in the shadows when compared to other medical conditions. The two diseases stand at opposite ends of the spectrum of diagnosis, treatment and…
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These numbers are astounding.
Between 1999 and 2021, nearly 645,000 people died of an opioid overdose. That’s in 22 years. Since the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, the cumulative deaths from all American…
About one in six people globally battle infertility, according to the World Health Organization. That’s why Ovia Health by Labcorp is launching a new fertility and family-building benefit for employers and health plans, the…
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