A New Medicare Option for Weight Loss Drugs: What Older Americans Should Know
Starting in July, Medicare beneficiaries may be able to get a GLP-1 prescription for weight loss for $50 a month. It’s a notable shift for...
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The Help That Many Older Americans Need Most
On a recent Monday, Sandy Guzman, a community health worker in rural Oregon, drove to visit a patient in her 60s in a small city...
Indigenous Americans’ DNA reveals how natural selection affected people who moved into Earth’s ‘final frontier’
Humans migrated to South America in three distinct waves over the course of thousands of years, a new large-scale analysis of Indigenous Americans’ DNA reveals....
Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals
Indigenous people in the western United States invented dice more than 12,000 years ago, offering archaeologists the world’s oldest evidence of gambling and possibly the...
Steep Health Care Costs Steer Americans to Tough Decisions
Dan Weissmann Health insurance is out of reach for millions of Americans this year. Many are making difficult decisions about how to pay for coverage...
First Americans: How much do you know about the first people to reach the Americas?
The Americas have been home to humans for tens of thousands of years, with the first people arriving during the last ice age, when woolly...
As More Americans Embrace Anxiety Treatment, MAHA Derides Medications
After a grueling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was anxious — not the manageable hum that had long...
Vaccine denial sets Americans up for more chronic illness
For most of modern medical history, scientists have framed infectious disease as having two possible outcomes: recovery or death. You either get better, or you...