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Dr. Jens Juul Holst says a better measure of obesity might be a measurement of waist-to-hip ratio, rather than body mass index.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Blockbuster weight loss drugs are revealing what we still don’t understand about obesity

President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to head the US Department of Health and Human Services.

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RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ has health experts worried

Ashley O'Neil and her husband Jorge had Kolin baptized while he was in the NICU.

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High rates of preterm birth and infant deaths get the US another D+ grade: ‘It’s a travesty’

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - APRIL 26: In this photo illustration a 10 pack and one dose bottles of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, sits on a counter at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo Illustration by George Frey/Getty Images)

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Measles is debilitating and deadly and cases are surging, WHO and CDC warn

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Morning-after pill sales surge online, telehealth companies say, as women prepare for second Trump term

This is a colorized transmission electron microscopic image of mpox virus particles (red), found within an infected cell (blue), that had been cultured in the laboratory. The image was captured and color-enhanced at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Integrated Research Facility (IRF), located in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

United States’ first known case of more severe strain of mpox confirmed in California

E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots leaves 1 dead and dozens sickened across the US

Doctors say RFK Jr.’s anti-Ozempic stance perpetuates stigma and misrepresents evidence

The best Nike running shoes, according to a trainer and podiatrist

More than 1 in 3 surgical patients has complications, study finds, and many are the result of medical errors

‘Obesity is at a crisis point’: Study predicts that 260 million in US will be overweight or obese by 2050

Canadian teen in critical condition with bird flu; source of exposure is unknown

It’s easier than you might think for teens to buy restricted e-cigarette devices online

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New cookbook encourages cooks to follow charts, not recipes

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Want to live an extra 5 to 10 years? Adopt this habit, study suggests

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The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere (its protective bubble) was behaving before Voyager 2's flyby. The second panel shows that an unusual kind of solar weather was happening at the same time as the spacecraft's flyby, giving scientists a skewed view of Uranus's magnetosphere.

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NASA’s only visit to Uranus happened during a rare cosmic occurrence

The moon rises behind an observation deck in New York City as seen from Hoboken, N.J., Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Look up this weekend for a celestial double feature

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Long-lost ocean worms photobomb tiny seahorses, surprising scientists

The lunar farside as never seen before! LROC WAC orthographic projection centered at 180° longitude, 0° latitude

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Findings from the first lunar far side samples raise new questions about the moon’s history

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Diamond and Alexis Cooley hold a photo of their son, Onyxx, who died in his sleep in February in eastern Idaho. The coroner responsible for the baby’s death investigation chose not to do an autopsy or take other steps recommended by national experts in infant deaths. Idaho law didn’t require him to follow national standards, the coroner told ProPublica.

An Idaho baby’s unexplained death got no autopsy and a scant coroner’s investigation. State law says that’s fine.