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July 21, 2026 ByMaureen Salamon, Executive Editor, Harvard Women’s Health Watch

With the August 2026 recess looming, U.S. Congress faces a shrinking legislative runway to advance fiscal year (FY) 2027 appropriations bills and a growing list of healthcare priorities. Though the U.S. House of Representatives has advanced all 12 appropriations bills from the House Committee on Appropriations and House leadership has shared the text for a…

ST. PAUL — Since its launch in July 2022, operators with Minnesota’s mental health phone line have answered more than 370,000 calls, texts and online chats

Weight loss stories usually end with a before and after photo and not much else. Will Smith’s turned into something messier and a lot more revealing than either he or his audience expected going in

Machinery, livestock and vehicles are well-recognised farm hazards. However, research is increasingly showing that a farmer’s health can also affect how safely these hazards are managed. Diana van Doorn, Research Officer in Farm Safety, Health and Wellbeing, explains that health and safety should not be viewed as separate issues

New research suggests women with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) have a four times higher risk of developing heart disease

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The world’s population is ageing fast. In 2023, 1.1 billion people in the world were aged 60 years or over. That figure is projected to nearly double to 2.1 billion by 2050, representing around one in five people globally. By the late 2060s, the number of persons aged 60 years and over will reach 2.5 billion and surpass…

A University of Florida study is shedding new light on the biological changes linked to adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of spine found in many children